Share on Twitter 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.