Witness says man accused of murdering Ricky Osgood tried to use him as an alibi
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Man who fatally stabbed Ricky Osgood had police onto him within an hour
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Most of Wednesday, the first day of the three-week trial, involved Osgood’s partner Kelly Tyacke giving evidence. She was in a relationship with Eaton until sometime around April 2020, with the pair having two children together, before starting a relationship with Osgood. Eaton sent multiple threatening messages, including telling Tyacke to send Osgood to the door as he had a shotgun shell with “[Osgood’s] name on it”. Osgood, Tyacke and a friend were having coffee at Rugby St before Eaton turned up on September 8. Tyacke said she saw Eaton, wearing the stab-proof vest and armed with the same knife, and Osgood having an altercation over a gate.
He was granted a second win when the authority found in April he was unjustifiably dismissed. Wright Tanks’ director Andrew Wright told Osgood he was making him redundant in September 2018 with immediate effect. He offered to pay Osgood a $1500 settlement – the settlement the authority found unlawful – to help him while he looked for work, which Osgood took up. Since the settlement was found unlawful, Osgood was able to take action alleging he was unjustifiably dismissed. In her decision, authority member Michele Ryan said a business must show it had genuine grounds to make a redundancy, consult with the employee, give the employee time to comment on the redundancy, then consider that comment for a redundancy to be legal.