Tip-off help in murder
GOLD Coast police have had a breakthrough in a decade-old murder case.
A tip-off came through Crime Stoppers about the death of Darren Britza.
Mr Britza’s skeletal remains were found in 2008 under a bridge at Boyland in the Gold Coast Hinterland after record rainfall uncovered the grave site.
Extensive investigations led detectives to a Southport industrial area identified as the area where Mr Britza was murdered in 2001 before being disposed of under the bridge.
Police say the tip-off gave them more information about the movements of a white Holden Commodore station wagon and a blue Holden Commodore sedan seen on Minnie St, Southport, near where the murder took place.
The station wagon had been allegedly sighted in the Coomera area and was later found burnt-out near Canungra.
In 2009, police charged a man and a woman, aged 36 and 37, respectively, with murder. They remain in custody awaiting trial.
