Face of Nation : A woman will return to court on Tuesday over her role in the bashing of a Victorian father later found dead in shallow grave.
Olivia McOrmond, 47, was initially charged alongside three other people with murdering father-of-two Jade Goodwin on the Mornington Peninsula in October 2017. But McOrmond later confessed to one charge of assisting an offender after Brendan McDowall was found guilty of manslaughter and accomplice Shane Heiberg pleaded guilty to the same charge.
Last week, 38-year-old Natalie Dalton was jailed for at least one year and eight months for encouraging McDowall and Heiberg to bash Mr Goodwin, making an unproven claim the victim had raped a woman.
Dalton had told the two men that Mr Goodwin’s flatmate – McOrmond – felt like a hostage in her own home and wanted him evicted.
McOrmond left her apartment unlocked, allowing McDowall and Heiberg to later enter and give Mr Goodwin a “flogging” during what turned out to be a “protracted assault”. McDowall and Dalton later dumped Mr Goodwin’s body at Tyabb. McOrmond will face Justice Christopher Beale in the Supreme Court of Victoria on Tuesday for a pre-sentence plea hearing.
