The court heard Stein,in the voicemail messages,told Kallista Mutten that if she did not bring the vehicle back,“I am going to f---ing hurt you as well as everyone else,and I’ll tell the police that you’re the one who took your daughter”.
Stein repeatedly demanded that she pick up the phone,and at times raised his voice to a scream. In a message left at 10.05am,the court heard he said:“Guess what? The other car just started,c---,and I’ve got my f---ing guns,and I’m going to f---ing kill you now”.
“You f---ed me over for the last time,” he said. “It was f---ing you doing this to Charlise to f--- me wasn’t it … I’m going to kill you.”
Stein told Kallista Mutten police were on their way and “you’re going down,dog”. He alleged she had smashed up multiple properties,and it was her “last chance” to “do the right thing”.
Earlier,the jury heard the triple-zero call made by Charlise’s mother at 8.12am on January 14,in which she said,“I’m sorry,I need to report my daughter missing … she’s nine”. She said she last saw her “two nights ago”.
“She was here[at Wildenstein],I wasn’t here,my partner was here,” Kallista Mutten said.
“During the morning,she was really,she was sort of sick … lethargic … and I was two-and-a-half hours away.
“Justin and the lady that … came over to do the auction for his mum,which was her friend,he asked if she could mind her while he went and got me … didn’t want her in the car … throwing up.
“She was fine with that,and the lady said,‘No worries,take all the time you want’,and when we got back,they were gone,and I thought maybe she’s taken … so I rung the hospitals,but nup.”
She said she had been “looking for her in the bush and everything,that’s why it’s taken two days”.
She was asked by the operator if she had “any thoughts of where she[Charlise] might have gone”,and she said her daughter was “here on holidays for a month”.
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Detective Sergeant Bradley Gardiner said,according to phone records,Stein sent a text to Kallista Mutten at 8.20pm on January 11,stating:“Hey bub,sorry,left my phone in the car,been searching inside for it”,that he was “cooking up some chicken” and “Charsey” was watching TV and playing with balloons.
At 10.06am on January 12,Stein allegedly sent another message to his partner,which read:“Am literally about to walk out the door. Charsey is staying put in bed. She’s wrecked and already fallen back to sleep”,then left at 10.13am. By that point,Charlise was allegedly dead.
The prosecutor said Stein was medicated for schizophrenia with Quetiapine,which can cause nausea and vomiting,and later toxicology examination of Charlise found the drug in her system. He said the jury may infer Stein gave Charlise the drug “by design or … accidentally”.
Defence barrister Carolyn Davenport,SC,argues Stein told various stories “to protect Kallista”.
The jury has heard that Stein and Kallista Mutten met while each serving prison sentences and had a history of being involved with drugs. Charlise lived with her grandparents in Tweed Heads and had been visiting the couple during the school holidays.
The trial continues before Justice Helen Wilson.
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