Jurors have been urged to disregard David Bagster's alleged admission of guilt when he told a woman he "bashed" his partner Valmai Birch before putting her body in a bin.
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Defence barrister Scott Fraser told jurors in his closing address on Thursday that several people had fabricated their evidence when they took the stand during the Wollongong District Court trial.
David Bagster, 54, is accused of unlawfully killing Ms Birch before he hog-tied and placed her body face down in a water-filled wheelie bin inside her Woonona unit between March 9 and 21, 2011.
Bagster has denied the allegation of manslaughter.
Mr Fraser suggested to the jury that Teena Costa's timeline was inaccurate when she said Bagster admitted, "we got on the pills last night, I bashed her in the bathtub but I couldn't get her out so I lifted her into the wheelie bin".
Mr Fraser said there was no bathtub in the apartment and her version was inconsistent with her sister's recollection.
"Do you really think he said those words? I say no he did not" he said.
Mr Fraser suggested two of Ms Birch's friends, Geraldine Perrin and Lorraine Punter, "made up" their evidence when they claimed they heard Bagster make repeated threats to kill Ms Birch at Wollongong train station on the last day she was seen alive.
Mr Fraser said CCTV footage showed Ms Punter was not near the toilets when she allegedly heard Bagster say "I'm going to kill you. By the end of the week you will be dead."
"She like her friend Geraldine Perrin, made it all up," Mr Fraser said.
"It demonstrates the extent to which someone might be prepared to go if...someone doesn't like someone and heard through the rumour mill that they might be responsible [for their friend's death]."
Mr Fraser also said Bagster's DNA and fingerprints would "obviously" be in Ms Birch's house, including on the fan switch and kitchen exhaust switch, as he was regularly there and had cared for Ms Birch by cleaning ang cooking after she returned from hospital in early March.
Mr Fraser suggested Bagster's were on the wheelie bin as he would move it, take it out, clean it and put it back.
"The forensic evidence takes you nowhere," he said.
The trial continues.
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