AU - Lisa Marie Cummings, charged with DV Murder, Nambucca Heads, NSW, 22 August 2025

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Shock details emerge after man was found dead in a surfboard bag

Lisa Marie Cummings, 35, was arrested after Mark Myers, 62, was found dead at a Darkwood home in Coffs Harbour, on the NSW north coast, at 7pm on Thursday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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Oops thought I'd found another story but it's the same one, except it had a diff lead in title.

Darkwood, Coffs Harbour: Shock details emerge about relationship between man found dead in a surfboard bag and a woman charged with murder​

A woman accused of murdering a man before his body was found inside a surfboard bag is believed to have been in a relationship with him and paying him rent.

Shock details emerge after man was found dead in a surfboard bag

Lisa Marie Cummings, 35, was arrested after Mark Myers, 62, was found dead at a Darkwood home in Coffs Harbour, on the NSW north coast, at 7pm on Thursday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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The alleged murderer has a few charges against her…..

 

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Wonder whatever happened to this case? Again, the media haven’t reported any follow up on it since August, 2024.

Court hears woman charged with man's murder breached bail conditions​

ABC Coffs Coast
By Jasmine Kassis and Charles Rushforth

Posted Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 5:17am

“Ms Cummings briefly appeared at Coffs Harbour Local Court via video link on Monday from maximum security women's correctional centre Silverwater Correctional Complex in Sydney.

The defence told the court Ms Cummings had breached a good behaviour condition of bail for a different matter.

The homicide case has been adjourned until mid-October.“

Woman accused of murder in breach of bail when arrested over body found in surfboard bag

A court hears Lisa Marie Cummings from Nambucca, NSW was in breach of bail for another offence when she was charged with the murder of a 62-year-old man.

www.abc.net.au

 

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Found an upcoming court date listing:-

 

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I can't find a listing on the court lists yet but this from a DT report from 24 June.

 

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Wonder whatever happened to this case? Again, the media haven’t reported any follow up on it since August, 2024.

Court hears woman charged with man's murder breached bail conditions​

ABC Coffs Coast
By Jasmine Kassis and Charles Rushforth

Posted Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 5:17am

“Ms Cummings briefly appeared at Coffs Harbour Local Court via video link on Monday from maximum security women's correctional centre Silverwater Correctional Complex in Sydney.

The defence told the court Ms Cummings had breached a good behaviour condition of bail for a different matter.

The homicide case has been adjourned until mid-October.“

Woman accused of murder in breach of bail when arrested over body found in surfboard bag

A court hears Lisa Marie Cummings from Nambucca, NSW was in breach of bail for another offence when she was charged with the murder of a 62-year-old man.

www.abc.net.au

Lisa is being held in a Forensic Hospital ie a mental health facility and I believe her mental state at the time of the offence will form the greater part of her diminished responsibility plea.

 

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http://drupal.internal.onlineregistry.justice.nsw.gov.au/content/court-lists

 

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http://drupal.internal.onlineregistry.justice.nsw.gov.au/content/court-lists

 

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Lisa Marie Cummings denies murder of Mark Myers whose body was found in board bag at Darkwood​

“A woman accused of the murder of a man whose body was found stuffed into a surfboard bag on a remote bushland driveway has entered a plea in the Supreme Court, setting the stage for a high stakes trial.


Lisa Marie Cummings, 35, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Nambucca Heads man Mark Myers, 62.

The body of Mark Myers was found in a surfboard bag on the driveway of a property at Darkwood, sparking a massive police investigation which led to the eventual arrest of Cummings.

Police allege Cummings murdered Myers in a different location before the body was zipped into the surfboard bag and moved to Darkwood in the Thora Valley, west of Bellingen.”

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/coffs-harbour/lisa-marie-cummings-denies-murder-of-mark-myers-whose-body-was-found-in-board-bag-at-darkwood/news-story/1e75105ccf9d89f9037ae5dac8003414

 

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http://drupal.internal.onlineregistry.justice.nsw.gov.au/content/court-lists

 

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Court: Lisa Cummings strangled and stabbed Mark Myers but not criminally responsible​

“A court has ruled that a woman who confessed to killing a man and hiding his body in a surfboard bag is not criminally responsible.

“I did it, I killed him,” – Lisa Marie Cummings’ confession to police came less than 24 hours after the body of 62-year-old Mark Myers, was discovered stuffed inside a surfboard bag on a remote rural driveway near Bellingen on August 23 last year. “

Paywalled​

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/coffs-harbour/court-lisa-cummings-strangled-and-stabbed-mark-myers-but-not-criminally-responsible/news-story/a36368375f59bc3442419fa195239e4f

In summing up, the defence and prosecution agreed Cummings’ had an established mental health diagnosis - having a mental health impairment, being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2019. At the time of the killing Myers believed the television was sending her messages, with a voice telling her that if you don’t kill him, you will be killed.

Cummings will be detained under mental health orders.