Vic: Man pleads guilty to role in killing of childcare worker

AAP General News (Australia)
04-22-2010
Vic: Man pleads guilty to role in killing of childcare worker

A man has pleaded guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice over the death
of a Victorian childcare worker .. who was strangled and dismembered in a bathtub.

Police allege 27-year-old RAECHEL (RAECHEL) BETTS' body parts were found on Phillip
Island beaches .. five days after her disappearance on August 11.

25-year-old RYAN BUSCEMA of Mill Park has pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates'
Court to attempting to pervert the course of justice.

54-year-old MAUREEN RENWICK .. whose address can't be published for legal reasons ..

has pleaded not guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice .. conspiracy to
pervert the course of justice and trafficking methylamphetamine.

27-year-old NICOLE GODFREY of Phillip Island .. who allegedly watched her lover JOHN
LESLIE COOMBES murder Ms BETTS .. is charged with being an accessory after the fact ..

and has had her charge adjourned until a contested committal hearing in February.

AAP RTV df/gfr/ajw/

KEYWORD: BUSCEMA (MELBOURNE)

� 2010 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.