A man will remain in custody after he was arrested at Brisbane airport and charged with murdering a 79-year-old woman whose body was found at a suburban home.
Emergency services were called to a residence on Chestnut Place about 4.20pm on Monday at The Gap in Brisbane’s north-west, Queensland police said.
Police will allege they found the woman with a fatal stab wound and she was declared dead at the scene.
“A crime scene was declared and investigations commenced,” police said.
About two hours later, Australian federal police arrested 40-year-old Victorian man Alexander Clive Webb at Brisbane airport.
Investigators say the two people knew each other, and the man has been charged with murder.
Webb was not in Brisbane magistrates court on Tuesday when his case was briefly mentioned.
Webb’s defence solicitor, Rachael Jackson, told magistrate Aaron Simpson that her client was not required to appear and sought an adjournment to 14 April.
Simpson asked Jackson if she needed more time.
“I’m just wondering whether I should go out further,” he said.
The police prosecutor did not oppose adjourning the case for extra time.
Simpson adjourned the matter to 22 April and remanded Webb in custody, noting there had been no application for bail.
Defendants charged with murder in Queensland must apply for bail in the supreme court.
