Jayden Moorea: Man charged in blind cheerleader girlfriend's death now accused of indecent treatment of teen
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: A man who allegedly killed a blind Gold Coast Titans cheerleader nearly a decade ago is reportedly back in custody over a fresh charge related to the indecent treatment of a 14-year-old girl.
Dan Shearin, who is now known as Jayden Moorea, was apprehended last week and his residence in the Gold Coast suburb of Nerang was searched. Detectives reportedly seized a number of electronic devices from the home. Moorea, 48, appeared in court on Tuesday, August 30, to plead for his release over the allegation of indecent treatment of the teenager, but was denied bail. He was originally charged in an unrelated case in 2021 after he allegedly murdered his girlfriend Breeana Robinson in January 2013. That case, however, is yet to come to trial.
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Moorea's lawyer reportedly sought to have the court closed citing sensitivity concerns over his client's latest charge, but this was refused. The court heard how the former cruise ship singer allegedly exchanged sexually explicit messages with the teenaged girl over the internet. As mentioned, this comes after Moorea was charged in the January 29, 2013 death of Robinson, when she fell 11 storeys from his luxury apartment at Southport on the Gold Coast.
The man accused of throwing his cheerleader girlfriend from his Southport high rise almost a decade ago is tonight back behind bars.
— 9News Gold Coast (@9NewsGoldCoast) August 30, 2022
Jayden Moorea, is facing a fresh charge over an unrelated incident. @AbbeyGeran #9News pic.twitter.com/3tfa5NimqM
Police initially ruled the death as a suicide, and a full investigation was not launched until 2017. A court previously heard how neighbors were interviewed by police five years after the tragedy and witnesses gave inconsistent accounts of how Robinson landed. In January 2021, on the eighth anniversary of Robinson's death, Magistrate Catherine Pirie ruled the case would be going to a jury.
Julie Carroll, a former neighbor, told the court that she was watching a movie in her 11th floor apartment when she heard screaming and crying on the night of the incident. "I could hear the man, he was loud, yelling, and a woman was crying," she testified, saying the voices grew louder over time. She said she didn't see Robinson but heard a "high-pitched scream" that ended abruptly shortly after the argument died down. Another neighbor Dr Rebecca Adams, who lived a couple of floors above the couple, said she thought someone had been hit by a car when she heard a loud thump. To her horror, when she looked over the window, she saw Robinson lying on the ground with "blood pooling" around her head.
Lisa Dunscombe, the couple's next door neighbor, said she didn't hear an argument but heard a loud thud and what she described as a "release of breath" while she was sitting in her apartment. "Because it was a foreign noise I went out to investigate … it wasn't a normal traffic noise," she testified. Dunscombe initially thought the lifeless body was a mannequin and that someone was playing a sick joke. She also told the court that Moorea appeared upset when he got in the elevator and behaved erratically.
The man accused of killing a Gold Coast Titan's cheerleader in 2013 is facing a fresh charge. Jayden Moorea appeared from the cells this morning pleading for his release over an alleged indecent treatment of a 14-year-old girl. https://t.co/tIEQ9K5sus @KaitlanSteadman #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/OGHUCbObqv
— 7NEWS Gold Coast (@7NewsGoldCoast) August 30, 2022
Moorea was refused bail after being accused of indecent treatment of a 14-year-old girl. Meanwhile, Robinson's aunt Janine Mackney said, "It's been nearly 10 years (and) we still don't have a court date. The only happy news is he's actually in custody now, and he'll be in there for some time."
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Moorea is set to stand trial over Robinson's death, but reports suggest his lawyer Chris Hannay was negotiating with authorities and the murder charge could be dropped. The suspect has always maintained his innocence over the incident and even published a book on the case titled 'The Blame Game' under his previous name Dan Shearin. In the book, he referred to Robinson as Bree and said his first impression when he saw her on Facebook was that she was a "gorgeous blonde girl with the cheekiest smile and her beautiful personality jumped through the computer at me." He added that when he found out she was legally blind, it "just melted my heart like never before," the Daily Mail reported.
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