A Waratah woman, accused of murdering her lesbian lover’s male partner, asked a friend to keep a gun in her roof, the NSW Supreme Court heard today.
28-year-old Tanya Louise Lane, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Steven Quire, who’s body was found in bushland near Freeman’s Waterhole at Watagan State Forest in 2010.
Mr Quire had been shot in the chest, and not seen since February 19, 2010.
The court heard that Lane showed a friend, Jodi McPhee, a gun she said was a fireworks gun and asked her if she could keep it in her roof.
Ms McPhee told the court that Lane had asked her ” a couple of times” if she could get her a gun.
She said Lane showed her a gun she pulled out from underneath the passenger seat of her car around February 2010.
Sometime afterwards, Ms McPhee said Lane asked her if she could “put something in her roof”.
“I said, ‘like what?’ and she said, ‘a gun’,” Ms McPhee said, before adding she refused the request.
The court heard that Lane had told Ms McPhee she was in love with Renae, but it was “complicated” and that the complication was Renae’s husband.
The trial continues.
