The 28-year-old teared up on the witness stand as prosecutors accused her of lying about the whereabouts of Andre Rebelo on the morning his mother died.
The last witness to be called in Andre Rebelo’s murder trial was revealed to be his famous ex-girlfriend and mother of their son,Grace Piscopo.
State prosecutors have accused Andre Rebelo of lying about the reason he went to his mother’s house on the morning she died.
Andre Rebelo is accused of killing his mum to claim more than a million dollars in life insurance policies he took out in her name a week before she died.
The 28-year-old told the court he saw his mum on the morning that she died but did not kill her.
Audio recordings from police listening devices placed in the home of Andre Rebelo and his Instagram-famous girlfriend Grace Piscopo have been played to the jury in his murder trial.
In 2020,Rebelo sat down with two police officers to answer questions about fake email accounts,forged documents,a fake will,and life insurance policies in his mother’s name – and denied any knowledge of them.
The lengths police went to in trying to catch out accused killer Andre Rebelo were revealed in court on Tuesday as part of the 28-year-old’s murder trial.
Julian Rebelo has told a jury in his brother Andre’s murder trial that he was the executor of his mother’s will,but Andre tried to get involved in her affairs after her death.
A series of messages sent between Andre Rebelo,who is on trial over the murder of his mum,his twin sister Monique and younger brother Fabian have been shown to the jury,revealing a tense relationship.
Publicly,the couple were living the high life but behind closed doors they were so broke Rebelo had to apply for centrelink payments and ultimately filed for bankruptcy in the face of massive credit card debt.