Crime by Ben Graham  Just days before the horrific death of a Queensland mother-of-three, the family of the man accused of killing her made a strange plea for help. Kelly Wilkinson s burned body was discovered early on Tuesday morning in the backyard of her home in Arundel on the Gold Coast. Officers went to the Spikes Court property at 6:40am after neighbours reported hearing screams and the sound of an explosion. That man has now been confirmed to be 27-year-old Ms Wilkinson s estranged partner Brian Johnston, 35, who was found two blocks away from her on a front lawn in a semiconscious state shortly after officers arrived at the scene.
Crime by Ben Graham  Just days before the horrific death of a Queensland mother-of-three, the family of the man accused of killing her made a strange plea for help. Kelly Wilkinson s burned body was discovered early on Tuesday morning in the backyard of her home in Arundel on the Gold Coast. Officers went to the Spikes Court property at 6:40am after neighbours reported hearing screams and the sound of an explosion. That man has now been confirmed to be 27-year-old Ms Wilkinson s estranged partner Brian Johnston, 35, who was found two blocks away from her on a front lawn in a semiconscious state shortly after officers arrived at the scene.
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Loved ones and a local community have been left devastated by the death of Kelly Wilkinson, a Gold Coast mother-of-three who was allegedly murdered in the backyard of her own home.
Detectives charged Brian Earl Johnston, 34, from New Beith in Logan, with murder and breaching a domestic violence order on Tuesday night.
Police found Ms Wilkinson s burned body at the Arundel home that morning when they arrived to conduct a welfare check. She was 27 years old. Formal identification continues after the body of a woman was located at a Spikes Court address this morning, with police believing the deceased to be 27-year-old Kelly Wilkinson, a resident of the address, Queensland Police said in a statement on Tuesday night.
Crime by Ben Graham  Just days before the horrific death of a Queensland mother-of-three, the family of the man accused of killing her made a strange plea for help. Kelly Wilkinson s burned body was discovered early on Tuesday morning in the backyard of her home in Arundel on the Gold Coast. Officers went to the Spikes Court property at 6:40am after neighbours reported hearing screams and the sound of an explosion. That man has now been confirmed to be 27-year-old Ms Wilkinson s estranged partner Brian Johnston, 35, who was found two blocks away from her on a front lawn in a semiconscious state shortly after officers arrived at the scene.
11:44 EDT, 21 April 2021
Mother-of-three Kelly Wilkinson (left) was found dead with burns to her body in the backyard of a Gold Coast home on Tuesday morning. Her ex-husband Brian Johnston (right) has been charged with her alleged murder
A seemingly insignificant photo of a bundle of Halloween treats has shed light on how a mother-of-three who was allegedly set on fire and killed by her estranged husband lit up the room .
Kelly Wilkinson, 27, had sought a police restraining order against Brian Earl Johnston, 34, before her burnt body was discovered in the back yard of her Arundel, Gold Coast home in the early hours of Tuesday morning.