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AYDE Kendall’s alleged murderer searched YouTube for the “best way to dispose of a body” the day before the schoolgirl was killed, a court has heard.
The evidence has emerged on day six of the Supreme Court trial of 21-year old Brenden Bennetts, who has pleaded not guilty to murder but admitted to manslaughter.
The paddock where the body of Jayde Kendall (inset, left) was found. Brenden Bennetts (inset, right) is accused of killing her.
The court has been told analysis of Bennetts’ phone history discovered the YouTube search from August 13, 2015 at 12.19pm.
Jayde, 16, died the next day.
Queensland Police computer analyst Neil Robertson also gave evidence that Bennetts had deleted text messages sent between himself and Jayde from his phone.
It is also alleged Bennetts sent a text to himself at 3.58pm the day Jayde died, with the numbers “1849” — which the court has previously been told is Jayde’s PIN number for her bank account.
A Facebook picture of Jayde Kendall with her accused murderer Brenden Bennetts.
Mr Robertson said he believed they were the only messages deleted from the phone.
He also told the court the pair had exchanged 48 picture messages on SnapChat, which could not be recovered.
Under cross-examination by Bennetts’ barrister Michael Copley QC, Mr Robertson agreed he did not know what the accused man looked at or if he accessed anything at all when he searched “best way to dispose of a body”.
He agreed YouTube results could range from “sinister to humorous”.
The trial continues tomorrow.
EARLIER: Jayde ‘dragged by feet, covered in grass’
A SUPREME Court jury has been shown images of the location where schoolgirl Jayde Kendall’s body was found and told she may have been dragged by her feet to the spot south of Gatton.
Jayde, 16, was found dead in a paddock on August 27, 2015 — 13 days after her father reported her missing.
Jayde Kendall’s body was found in a paddock near Allens Road at Upper Tenthill.
Brenden Bennetts, 21, has pleaded not guilty to her murder and is facing a trial in the Supreme Court after his guilty plea to manslaughter was not accepted by prosecutors.
The jury was today shown photographs from the scene where Jayde’s body was found near Allens Road at Upper Tenthill.
The photographs depicted the site where her body was found but did not show the teenager’s body.
The court was told her body was covered in dead grass and her underwear was in the right pocket of her school trackpants.
There was also “some aspects of the body positioning that would suggest” she was dragged by her feet to where she was found by a local property owner, a Queensland Police scientist said.
It is alleged Bennetts killed Jayde after picking her up from Lockyer Valley District High School about 3.20pm August 14, 2015.
Jayde was dead by 5pm, it is alleged.
The court has been told the pair exchanged a number of text messages that day, including one in which Jayde said she was “nervous”.
It is also alleged Bennetts withdrew $70 from Jayde’s bank account and was captured on CCTV at the ATM in Gatton.
The trial continues.
