Emotional police interview footage has been played in court showing a woman relive the moment she watched her boyfriend allegedly butcher a home invader with a samurai sword.
Hannah Quinn and Blake Davis have pleaded not guilty to the alleged murder of Jett McKee in Forest Lodge in inner Sydney on August 10, 2018.
Jurors in the murder trial of Quinn and her boyfriend began watching the 26-year-old woman’s six-hour police interview four days after Mr McKee’s death.
With her voice wavering and nose sniffling, Quinn, wearing a forensic jumpsuit, detailed how on the afternoon of the incident she’d returned to Davis’ Forest Lodge unit with two coffees and food.
In a police interview in August 2018, Ms Quinn detailed watching her boyfriend allegedly murder a home intruder with a samurai sword
The bloody scene (pictured) at Forest Lodge, Sydney, marked out by forensics
The former kindergarten teacher said she noticed a man ‘looking around everywhere’ in the front yard.
As she mentioned it to Davis and handed him his coffee, the intruder burst in and pointed a gun at the couple, Quinn said.
‘He was really intimidating… he said there would be more people coming if he didn’t give him some money,’ she said.
‘He said there were people who knew who our family was and that they would hurt our families.’
Quinn told police she was screaming, stressing, and ‘was not sure what was going on’.
‘He had a gun in one hand and put a knuckleduster on the other hand and punched Blake,’ she said.
‘Blake fell down, I think he blacked out, I’m not sure but he fell to the ground.’
Hannah Quinn and Blake Davis have pleaded not guilty to the alleged murder of Jett McKee in Forest Lodge in inner Sydney on August 10, 2018
Hannah Quinn (left) with Blake Davis (right) arrive at Darlinghurst Local Court
Quinn said Mr McKee then grabbed a bag that was hanging off her shoulder and ran off.
She then chased after Mr McKee, who had run out the front gate onto the street.
‘I tried to snatch my bag back and he turned around and tried to punch me but I stepped backwards and he lost his footing,’ she said.
‘He fell to the ground and was holding the gun up to me and I’ve just frozen.
‘And that’s when Blake ran up and he hit the guy… and I just saw blood. I just ran. I freaked out.
‘We were just yelling, screaming, crying. [Blake] grabbed, I thought it was like a tarp thing or something, and wrapped the sword up in it.’
Running back to the unit, Quinn said the pair was having ‘panic attacks and I was freaking out’.
‘We thought there might be more people coming so we just got out of there. We jumped over the back fence,’ she said.
‘We just ran. I don’t know where we even ran, we just ran. We hid in an alleyway for while.’
Later in the interview, Quinn said through tears: ‘we knew we had to go to the police, we just didn’t, just so scared. So freaked out by everything that had happened’
Jett McKee (pictured) was found dead after allegedly busting into Quinn and Davis’ home
The alleged weapon (pictured) used in the alleged killing in Sydney’s inner west in 2018
Quinn said they then caught an Uber to her house where she cleaned up Davis’ eye from the knuckleduster injury.
‘We got too scared and freaked out staying at my house in case people were going to come there and try to do the same thing,’ she said.
‘I was just so scared and so traumatised. I didn’t know what to do.’
The former kindergarten teacher said the pair went to a hotel where they continued to ‘freak out’.
Quinn said they planned to go to a hospital in Hornsby to get Davis’ eye looked at, but the couple didn’t end up going as they were too panicked.
When asked by detectives, ‘in relation to the death of Jett McKee, did you at any time make a plan… or have any premeditation in regards to murdering Jett McKee?’, Quinn responded ‘no, not at all.’
The alleyway where police discovered cash and weapons following the alleged murder
Police also discovered an Uber Eats bag containing $21,000 cash and weapons left in the alleyway after the accused couple fled the scene
Quinn and Davis claimed they were acting in self defence, while the prosecution argued their actions were ‘not reasonable in the circumstances’. Pictured: Mr McKee’s body
Hannah Quinn (pictured left) and Blake Davis (pictured right) are accused of chasing Mr Mckee down the street before Davis struck him with the sword
Later in the interview, Quinn said through tears: ‘we knew we had to go to the police, we just didn’t, just so scared. So freaked out by everything that had happened.’
The NSW Supreme Court was also shown footage of Quinn being presented with photos of nunchucks and a pistol called ‘Blake’s toys’.
Four swords and a large knife were found at Blake’s house on the same day Mr McKee died.
Police also discovered an Uber Eats bag containing $21,000 cash and weapons left in the alleyway after the accused couple fled the scene.
The jury has heard the couple stayed at hotels over the weekend before a solicitor arranged for them to go to a police station on Monday, August 13.
Quinn and Davis claimed they were acting in self defence, but the prosecution argued their actions were ‘not reasonable in the circumstances’.
The trial continues.
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