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A friend of a young mother who was allegedly stabbed to death and then wrapped in plastic and dumped in a creek has been charged with her murder.
Carol Marie Dawson McHenry, 32, appeared at Gosford Local Court on Friday via video link where prosecutors said her initial charges of being an accessory after the fact would be upgraded.
Three co-accused have been charged over the grizzly death of ‘Quaker Girl’ Danielle Easey, 29, after her body was found on the banks of Cockle Creek in Killingworth, west of Newcastle, on August 31 last year.
Carol Marie Dawson McHenry, 32, (pictured) has been charged with the murder of Danielle Easey
Ms Easey’s (pictured) body was found wrapped in plastic and dumped by the banks of a creek on August 31
Justin Kent Dilosa, 33, is accused of Ms Easey’s murder and is still before the courts while Jeremy Aaron Princehorn, 37, was charged with concealing a serious indictable offence.
The court heard McHenry had impersonated Ms Easey on social media in the weeks following the mother-of-two’s gruesome death.
Police allege McHenry defrauded Ms Easey’s mother of $50 one day before her daughter’s body was found, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Investigators meanwhile have alleged McHenry was killed with a blade at a Gosford home in Reeves St, Narara, on or about August 17.
Her body was then allegedly wrapped in plastic sheeting and taken to a disused chicken factory in the Newcastle suburb of Cardiff, some 80 kilometres away – where it lay for a fortnight.
Acting Detective Superintendent Jason Dickinson has alleged Ms Easey suffered a violent end.
McHenry – a mother-of-four – was originally charged with being an accessory to murder and dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception
Pictured: Detectives swoop in on Carol Marie Dawson McHenry and Justin Kent Dilosa in 2019
Homicide Squad detectives are pictured arresting McHenry after a raid in 2019
‘A post-mortem examination confirmed that Danielle had been seriously assaulted and suffered stab wounds,’ he said.
‘All three [Ms Easey, Dilosa and McHenry] were associates and known to each other for some time.’
Investigators allege Ms Easey’s body was later moved to the banks of a nearby creek.
Dilosa was first arrested back in September 2019 after officers raided a poultry processing plant in Cardiff where he was residing in a caretaker’s cottage.
In the months before she died, Ms Easey (pictured) had been studying to be a teacher’s aide
Detectives also seized a Mitsubishi Delica at the site they allege transported the victim’s decomposing body.
Ms Easey made national headlines in 1989 when she was born on a grass nature strip following the Newcastle earthquake.
When the hospital was evacuated, her mother Jennifer Collier was forced to give birth in a makeshift tent made of sheets.
Ms Easey was born 90 minutes after the 5.6 tremor struck Newcastle – reducing part of the city to rubble.
Ms Easey (pictured as a baby being held by mother Jennifer) was given the nickname ‘Quaker’ after she was born on a patch of grass during Newcastle’s 1989 earthquake
She was given the nickname ‘Quaker’ after her birth.
In the months before she died, Ms Easey had been studying to be a teacher’s aide.
Her mother told Nine News her daughter was a ‘beautiful person and terrific mother’.
‘She had a big heart and I still think it’s a dream sometimes that I wish I could wake up from,’ she said.
Ms McHenry will reappear in court on February 19 next year for a committal hearing.
Mr Princehorn, who was on bail, did not show up at his scheduled court appearance on Friday prompting Magistrate Peter Barnett to issue a warrant for his arrest.
A Mitsubishi Delica, which police believe was the car used to transport Ms Easey’s body, was seized and has been forensically examined (pictured 2019)
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