The rap song Dead Body Disposal was on two separate playlists on the mobile phones owned by accused murderer Jack Harrison Vincent Sadler, a Supreme Court jury heard.
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Constable Peter McCarron said the song was on a Spotify playlist under the name "gym only" and another under the name "gym" on phones seized from Mr Sadler's home at 116 Dion Crescent, Riverside.
Mr Sadler has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Jake Anderson-Brettner at about 7.30pm on August 15, 2018.
The Crown alleges Mr Sadler shot Mr Anderson-Brettner three times and then dismembered his body before he and partner Gemma Clark disposed of it off the Tasman Highway and in wheelie bins around Launceston.
In his opening address Director of Public Prosecutions Daryl Coates SC said the song was one Mr Sadler liked to listen to.
He read out some lyrics of the song by an American rapper Necro to the jury.
Strip ya self nude first so you don't get blood on ya new shirt And cut the f---in' corpse up like a butcher to meat kid And put the pieces inside trash bags So she'll be reeking like a fags ass with flesh covered in leeches And throw the bags away in various trash bins in different areas This shit's hilarious Nobody notices some asshole taking out the garbage Who would know it's a carcass? Even if they were focusing cause the plastic bag is dark kid And even the nosy b---h wouldn't open it, it make no sense And if you do it just before a trash pick up The bodies hauled away before it decays and stinks up It won't be noticed with literally tons of other shit And ya bag is in the middle buried right under it Especially if you double-bagged it Ya victim'll stay a faggot in fragments forever stagnant.
- lyrics of the song by an American rapper Necro
Mr Coates said it was the Crown case that Mr Anderson-Brettner was disposed of in a very similar way.
"This is how the accused got the idea and he was thinking about it beforehand," Mr Coates said.
He said Ms Clark would give evidence that Mr Sadler regularly played the song.
Constable McCarron gave evidence that the house smelt strongly of bleach when he went there as a forensic officer.
"There was an overwhelming smell of bleach and cleaning product," he said.
"It was a strong enough to make my eyes water.
He said that he noticed the home was incredibly warm and hot.
"There was a woodheater in the middle of the lounge room," he said.
The jury heard this week that Mr Sadler and Ms Clark burnt carpet in the woodheater after they beheaded and dismembered Mr Anderson-Brettner.
Under instructions from Detective Sergeant Darren Turner Constable McCarron photographed a pistol which was found in a cryovac bag in bushes at the back of the house.
Defence counsel Greg Richardson asked Constable McCarron if he had photographed a playlist from Ms Clark's phone.
"No, no one asked me to do that," he said.
The trial continues today.
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