The New Zealander Julia Deluney is accused of having murdered her 79-year-old mother, Helen Gregory, after channeling her money in the crypto.
According to a Radio New Zealand Tuesday report Deluney, 53, is accused of having killed her mother after stolen the money she kept hidden at her house. Gregory would have deserved banks and would rather have kept plastic packets hidden in the house.
When Gregory was hospitalized after a fall in September 2023, Deluney and her husband would have stayed at home. The friends of the elder told court that in her return, she had found the house in a poor state and noticed that the money lacked.
Gregory’s friend Cheryl Thomson said that $ 51,000 NZD ($ 30,000) had disappeared. She added:
“She categorically said to me, without a doubt, that the only person who knew that the money was there was Julia.”
Thomson also said that Gregory said that when he was confronted, Deluney – currently at home under electronically surety – said she had invested it in cryptocurrency. She noted that the amount that her daughter had invested was around $ 45,000 NZD.
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Cryptographic scam
Gregory was found dead at his home in January 2024, two days after receiving an email from his daughter claiming that his investment in crypto resulted in a significant profit equivalent to more than $ 160,000 NZD. Deluney would have told her mother that she needed more than $ 18,000 NZD for withdrawal fees and tax liabilities to withdraw the profits.
She asked her mother to cover half of these expenses. However, the experts consulted by the Court suggested that these costs were not real and that these lies constituted a common part of the scams.
Gregory’s friend Elizabeth Askin said that Delunery had promised to give mother’s feedback on her investments by November 2024. Then she said that she would share these profits in April 2024.
Financial analyst Eric Huang told court that his analysis of Deluney’s financial files showed that she had spent more than she won in the year before the death of her mother. Her study revealed that between January 1, 2023 and January 25, 2024, she spent $ 93,000 NZD in cryptographic investments.
Huang added that during the same period, she received more than $ 55,000 NZD from friends and family, mainly from her mother and father. In January 2024, Deluney’s investments were also nearly $ 41,000 NZD in red.
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The murder
Prosecutors accused Deluney of having killed his mother in his own house, going home and returning later with her husband. She claims to have left her mother with minor injuries after her fall from the attic, only to find the house of her mother resembling a “war zone” on her return.
The reconstruction of events suggests that Deluney attacked her mother before staging her to seem to have fallen from the attic. However, the inconsistencies of its history led the police to investigate death as manslaughter, rather than as an accident.
Under the counter-examination by defense lawyer Quentin Duff, Sergeant-Dettective Giulia Boffa said that the police had found inconsistencies in Deluney’s account. He said:
“There was information that was important that lacked the accounts that were provided on the change of clothes and a number of areas traveled to what we are picking up with which we were not told.”
Deluney would have changed clothes several times that evening. A scanning of the interior of Gregory’s house found blood on the walls and the floor, and tufts of hair in the corridor and the room – details not compatible with a fall of the attic.
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