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A WOMAN wore nothing but a red G-string when she attacked and killed her boyfriend's estranged wife who had just found them in bed together, a court was told yesterday.
Kathleen Schroeder, 43, appeared in the Brisbane Magistrate's Court charged with murdering Narelle Nix-Barclay, also 43, in February.
But that charge was dismissed after argument from defence counsel Peter Shields and she was committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court on a date to be fixed on the lesser count of manslaughter.
The committal hearing was told that Nix-Barclay discovered Schroeder and her estranged husband, Scott Nix-Barclay, in bed at his Wynnum West home and began lashing out and screaming abuse.
The two women began pulling each other's hair and then the dispute, also involving a naked Mr Nix-Barclay, moved out on to the front lawn of the home. Neighbour Gregory Temiha said he heard screaming as well as a gurgling choking noise and thought someone was being strangled. He had turned down the TV and got up to see a fully clothed woman lying on the grass with another woman standing above her.
"She looked as though she was just wearing a G-string," he said.
Temiha said the woman in the G-string had one hand on the other woman's chest and was punching the woman in the face with her other hand.
He said the naked man pulled her off the woman, who got up and walked away.
"She staggered away, she was kind of dazed," Temiha told the hearing.
The court was told that Nix-Barclay did not suffer any broken bones on the night, nor was a weapon used against her.
Investigating police said it appeared Nix-Barclay had suffered a stroke in the hours after the dispute.
She died several days later.