A Melbourne woman has been found guilty of murder after ordering her husband to kill her ex-lover in a plot went awry, leaving both men dead.
Biannca Edmunds was 170 kilometres away in Shepparton when her husband Glen Cassidy arrived at the home of her former partner, Michael Caposiena, on the night of March 12, 2016.
Biannca Edmunds outside the Supreme Court this year.Credit:Justin McManus
Caposiena, 32, answered the door of his home in Westmeadows in Melbourne’s northern suburbs armed with a kitchen knife and stabbed Cassidy, 49, before he was fatally shot. Both men died at the scene.
Edmunds was found guilty on Saturday of murder after prosecutors argued she directed, encouraged, or assisted her husband to kill Caposiena, her former partner and the father of her young son.
Prosecutors alleged a child custody dispute was at the centre of the murder plot.
It was Edmunds’ third trial. A jury at her first trial in June could not reach a unanimous verdict. A second trial was dismissed in August because of an issue with closing arguments.
Edmunds and husband Glen Cassidy.
At that trial, Edmunds’ mother Ellen Edmunds said her daughter called her crying and sobbing after the men died. She told her mother that Cassidy wasn’t supposed to die and also said that “all of her troubles were over”.
Cassidy and Caposiena had spoken through a security door on the night of their deaths.
Jurors at an earlier trial were told the door was unlocked when Cassidy asked to shake Caposiena’s hand. Instead, he went inside and pointed the gun at his victim’s head.
The previous jury was told Caposiena stabbed Cassidy at least twice before Cassidy shot Caposiena in the head.
Prosecutors told the earlier trial that Edmunds wanted Caposiena dead over concerns he was trying to see more of their young son and that she did a stakeout with her husband, drew him a map and provided the gun.
Edmunds will face a pre-sentence hearing at a later date.
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