A jury is expected to start deliberating on Tuesday in the aggravated burglary trial of a Wodonga woman branded as a drug-using liar.
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Kelly-Anne Walsh, 39, denied the charges during a week-long trial in Wodonga County Court.
She was accused of being one of two people who went into the home of Wodonga woman Melinda Berkley on January 15 and demanded her OxyContin pain medication.
The jury requested copies of Walsh’s phone records before making a decision.
The records showed she called and texted her alleged male co-offender multiple times between 7.33pm and 10.57pm, starting again the next day between 7.23am and 3.27pm.
The aggravated burglary occurred between those periods at at 4.30am.
In his closing argument on Monday, crown prosecutor Andrew Moore said the main issue in the case was whether Walsh was the woman under a balaclava, armed with a hammer.
The co-offender had a baseball bat.
“Both of them had previously pestered her for her OxyContin,” Mr Moore said.
He pointed to the evidence of Walsh going to the co-offender’s house that night to use the drug speed.
“They weren’t watching Dancing with the Stars,” Mr Moore said.
“They were on the drugs, on the gear.”
In Walsh’s police interview, she admitted putting on a balaclava during the night made out of a car seat cover with eye holes cut in the fabric.
She told officers she thought it was a beanie.
“The accused has told a lie, a very significant lie,” Mr Moore said.
“Why would she put that on to disguise herself as a man going home?
“Absolute poppycock.”
Walsh’s defence was that the victim’s description could have fit another woman known to the co-offender.
“It wasn’t Betty from around the block, it was Kelly, that’s who he was with,” Mr Moore said.
Detective Sergeant Graeme Simpfendorfer said police dismissed another woman with similar hair as a suspect.
“She was taller than what I believed the offender was, and leaner,” he said.
Barrister Alan Marshall accused police of not listening to the victim’s statement, which named the other woman as a possible offender.
“Some matters are just a little bit easy to read through,” he said.
The jury also requested to listen to the copy of the triple zero call placed by Melinda Berkley after the alleged aggravated burglary.
“She sounded pretty strong when she made that triple zero call, much stronger than she appeared here,” Mr Marshall said.
The trial continues.
