Isabela Camelo-Gomez has been convicted of the murder of her mother, Irene Jones, more than two decades ago. Jones, 56, was found strangled and stabbed on November 2, 2001 by police in response to reports of a burglary. house in Lansvale, south west Sydney.
The prosecution accused Camelo-Gomez of having committed a robbery in the middle of a fight over the inheritance money.
Isabela Camelo-Gomez has been convicted of murdering her mother, Irene Jones, in 2001. (9News)
Camelo-Gomez, formerly known as Megan Jones, had claimed she was attacked by an intruder with white gloves and a stocking on her face.
He ran to the neighbors before calling the triple zero.
“Something went through my neck … they pulled me back … I couldn’t breathe … I came back because I wanted to breathe,” Camelo-Gomez said during a police interview at the time.
“I started yelling … ‘help mom’.”
The incident was investigated as a robbery that went wrong, but the focus shifted when Camelo-Gomez sold Lansvale’s house by inheritance and moved in with a married man her mother had disapproved of.
She was arrested 18 years later and charged with murder.
Camelo-Gomez was released from court after being convicted. (9 News)
Camelo-Gomez claimed that it was his son’s father who killed or fixed his mother, but the man at the center of the case was unable to testify after suffering a brain injury in a car accident.
Today, a jury found Camelo-Gomez guilty of murdering his mother for forbidden love and money.
She continued to protest her innocence as she was removed from court.