New Zealander Julia Deluney is accused of killing her 79-year-old mother, Helen Gregory, after the funneling of her money in crypto.
According to a Tuesday Report Through Radio New Zealand, 53-year-old Deluney is accused of killing his mother after stealing the money he hid in his home. Gregory reported that the banks did not trust and instead maintained plastic packets hidden around the house.
When Gregory was hospitalized after the fall in September 2023, Deluney and his wife allegedly stayed at his home. Friends of the seniors in court said that on his return, he found the house in a difficult state and noticed that the money was missing.
Gregory’s friend Cheryl Thomson, mentioned that NZD $ 51,000 ($ 30,000) was lost. He added:
“He told me in the category, without a doubt, that the only person who knew the money was Julia.”
Thomson also said that Gregory confessed that, Deluney – who is currently at home in the electronic monitoring bail – said he invested in cryptocurrency. She noted that her daughter’s invested amount was approximately NZD $ 45,000.
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The crypto scam
Gregory was found dead at his home in January 2024, two days after receiving an email from his daughter saying that his investment in crypto resulted in a significant equivalent of income to more than NZD $ 160,000. Deluney reported to his mother that he needed more than NZD $ 18,000 for tax removal fees and responsibilities to revoke income.
She asked her mother to cover half of those costs. However, experts have suggested that the court consulted that the fees were false and that the lies form a standard part of the scams.
Gregory’s friend Elizabeth Askin said Deluney promised to return her mother to her investment in November 2024. Then, later, she said she would share the revenues in April 2024.
The financial analyst Eric Huang told the court that his review of Deluney’s financial records showed that he spent more than he earned in the year leading to his mother’s death. His study found that between January 1, 2023, and January 25, 2024, he spent the NZD $ 93,000 in crypto investments.
Huang added that at the same time, he received more than NZD $ 55,000 from friends and family, especially from his mother and father. In January 2024, Deluney’s investments were also NZD $ 41,000 in red.
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The murder
The prosecutors accused Deluney of killing his mother in his own house, driving back home, and returning to another wife. She says she left her mother with a minor injury after she fell from the attic, only to see her mother’s house resembling a “warzone” on her return.
Rebuilding events suggests that Deluney attacked his mother previously Dula This is for he fell from the attic. However, the inconsistencies of his story led to the police to investigate death as a man’s murder, rather than an accident.
Under the cross-examination of defense attorney Quentin Duff, Detective Sergeant Giulia Boffa said police found the inconsistencies of Deluney’s account. He said:
“There is information that is important to disappear from the accounts provided around the change of clothing and many places that have traveled to our choice that we have not been told.”
Deluney was reported to have changed clothes several times that night. A sweep of the interior of Gregory’s house found blood on the walls and floors, and clusters of hair in the hallway and room – details that were inconsistent with the fall from the attic.
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