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.
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Crime by Natalie Brown 21st Apr 2021 5:50 PM On Tuesday morning, police were called by a concerned neighbour to a Gold Coast home, where they found the body of Kelly Wilkinson. Three children under the age of 9 were inside the Arundel house, while the beautiful mum s body was discovered in the backyard, with burn-type injuries , in what Detective Inspector Chris Ahearn called a very confronting scene . Her former partner, 34-year-old Brian Earl Johnston, was found in the front yard of a home two blocks away in a semiconscious state , with serious burns to his hands and airway. He was charged with murder and breaching a domestic violence order by detectives 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.