VIC:Vic murder victim gave girls drugs: court

AAP General News (Australia)
02-21-2011
VIC:Vic murder victim gave girls drugs: court

By Kellee Nolan

MELBOURNE, Feb 21 AAP - A 27-year-old murder victim had been dealing and using drugs
and giving marijuana to two young girls in her care, a Melbourne court has heard.

John Leslie Coombes, 55, formerly of Preston, faced a committal hearing at Melbourne
Magistrates Court on Monday over the killing of Raechel (Raechel) Betts, whose body parts
were found on Phillip Island beaches days after her disappearance on August 11, 2009.

Coombes is accused of strangling Ms Betts and dismembering her in the bathtub of his
girlfriend's …