Noel Allan CLARK

Missing man, Murgon:

Last updated 25/08/2009

QLD Police are appealing for any information to help locate missing 33-year-old man, Noel Allan Clark. Mr Clark was last seen at Watt Street in Murgon QLD on May 25, 2009. Relatives reported the man missing to police in July after making enquiries and not being able to locate him. Police hold concerns for Mr Clark’s welfare.

Anyone with information which could assist police with their investigations should contact Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au 24hrs a day. Crime Stoppers is a charitable community volunteer organisation working in partnership with the Queensland Police Service.

Update to missing man, Maryborough

Last updated 27/08/2009

Police are appealing for any information to help locate missing 33-year-old man, Noel Allan Clark.

Initially Mr Clark was last seen at Watt Street in Murgon on May 25, 2009.

Further investigations reveal that he was last seen at the Centrelink on Ellena Street at Maryborough later that day.

Relatives reported the man missing to police in July after making enquiries and not being able to locate him.

Police would also like to hear from anyone who might have seen his blue 1994 Ford Fairmont sedan with registration 952-LFQ.

Police hold concerns for Mr Clark’s welfare.

Anyone with information which could assist police with their investigations should contact Gympie Police Station on 5482 2111 or Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au 24hrs a day. Crime Stoppers is a charitable community volunteer organisation working in partnership with the Queensland Police Service.

Homicide investigation missing person Maryborough

Last updated 19/10/2009

Police are treating the disappearance of a Maryborough man missing since May of this year as a suspected homicide.

33-year-old Noel Allan Clark was seen in Watt Street, Murgon on May 25 and later that day at Centrelink in Lennox Street, Maryborough.

There have been no confirmed sightings of Mr Clark since this date and police hold grave fears for his safety.

Police have conducted extensive investigations into Mr Clarks’ disappearance and believe he has met with foul play.

Relatives reported Mr Clark missing to police in July after making enquiries and not being able to locate him.

Mr Clark is described as 165cm tall with dark brown hair, a medium build and fair complexion.

Police would also like to hear from anyone who might have seen Mr Clark’s blue 1994 Ford Fairmont sedan with Queensland registration 952-LFQ.

Acting Regional Crime Coordinator, Acting Superintendent Dave Drinnen said investigators from the North Coast Region criminal investigation branches and the Homicide Investigation Group had established a Major Incident Room at Gympie Police Station.

“We are urging anyone who may have information relating to the movements of Mr Clark from May 25 onwards or information regarding his disappearance or the whereabouts of his car to contact us,” he said.

Police seek woman's extradition on murder charges

October 31st 2009 - ABC

Queensland police are travelling to Armidale in New South Wales to seek the extradition of a woman charged with murder.

The 30-year-old has also been charged with interfering with a corpse in relation to the alleged murder of 33-year-old Noel Allan Clark.

He was last seen in Maryborough in May and his car was later found in Brisbane.

His body has not been discovered.

Graeme Kenneth Wright, 41, has appeared in court charged with Mr Clark's murder and will reappear in January.

41yo charged over murder

Jeremy Sollars | 31st October 2009 - Warwick Daily News

A MAN accused of the murder of a missing 33-year-old from Maryborough has been arrested in suburban Warwick, police have confirmed.

Homicide detectives from Brisbane swooped on an undisclosed residential address in Glennie Heights late on Thursday afternoon after receiving information on the whereabouts of 41-year-old Graeme Kenneth Wright.

Wright appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday and has been formally charged with the murder of Noel Allan Clark (pictured) who has been missing for five months. Mr Clark’s body is yet to be located.

A Police Media spokeswoman yesterday declined to release further details of Wright’s arrest as he was now before the courts but it is understood he had been living with friends in Glennie Heights for several months.

Wright appeared briefly in court yesterday and was remanded in custody to appear again on January 18, with the matter likely to be shifted to Maryborough.

Mr Clark was last seen at a Maryborough Centrelink office on May 25 and in the town of Murgon earlier that day.

Relatives reported him missing to police in July.

Information received from the public after a major appeal led Gympie police late last week to a rest stop on Steve Irwin Way at Landsborough, where it was believed Mr Clark’s abandoned 1994 blue Ford Fairmont sedan had been spotted.

The car was not able to be located.

Mr Clark’s relatives were yesterday upset Maryborough police had not informed the family immediately after Wright’s arrest, but told the Fraser Coast Chronicle the development was a welcome step forward.

“It’s pretty devastating,” uncle Iain Cronk said.

“But it’s relieving to know that someone’s been charged.

“I guess the next step would be locating Noel’s body – we’d rather not bury an empty casket.”

Mr Cronk said the family had been “doing it tough” during the investigation and Mr Clark’s mother was “shattered but also relieved” when she was informed yesterday morning that police had made an arrest.

A person connected with the Maryborough drug industry told the Fraser Coast Chronicle in early September she believed Mr Clark had been murdered.

Neighbours said Mr Clark may have attracted trouble but that he was a quiet man who kept to himself, living in a house owned by his father.

Glennie Heights locals who spoke to the Daily News yesterday were shocked to hear an accused killer had been in their midst in recent months but were unaware of the police activity on Thursday.

AS the Daily News went to print last night, Police Media confirmed officers will travel to Armidale in New South Wales to seek the extradition of a Maryborough woman also charged with the murder of Noel Allan Clark.

The woman, 30, was arrested on Thursday night by virtue of a Queensland arrest warrant and is due to appear in the Armidale Magistrates Court on Monday, charged with murder and interfering with a corpse.

Information to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Further murder charge, Maryborough

Last Updated: 31/10/2009

Police have charged a 30-year-old man with the murder of 33-year-old Maryborough man Noel Allan Clark.

He was charged early this morning at Gympie.

The 30-year-old is due to appear on one count of murder in the Gympie Magistrates Court on Monday November 2.

Woman loses death and dismemberment sentence appeal

A Queensland woman who pleaded guilty to manslaughter and dismembering the victim's corpse has lost an appeal against her sentence.

Dianna Gay Wright, 33, was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in the death of Noel Allan Clark at Maryborough in 2009.

She had driven him to her house where two accomplices beat him with a baseball bat, subdued him with an ether-based spray and choked him.

Lawyers for Wright argued the sentence handed down in the Supreme Court in Brisbane last month did not adequately recognise her co-operation with authorities or her early guilty plea.

However in a judgment published today, the Court of Appeal has determined the sentence appropriately reflected the gravity of Wright's crime.

In Maryborough yesterday, co-accused Graeme Kenneth Wright was sentenced to life imprisonment for Mr Clark's murder.

Noel Clark killer had ‘nightmares’ of the murder

A FRASER Coast heroin user has been having nightmares about the night he used a baseball bat to help bash to death a man a court has heard.

A FRASER Coast heroin user has been having nightmares about the night he used a baseball bat to help bash to death a man whose penis was later cut off, a court has heard.

Byron Naylor's lawyers told Brisbane Supreme Court he felt such great sorrow at having been involved in the gruesome death that he also was having visions of deceased man Noel Allan Clark..

The court heard he took police to an area near Beerburrum on the Sunshine Coast in February to show them where they had dumped the body.

SES volunteers did extensive searches, including using metal detectors because Mr Clark, 33, had titanium plates after a car crash, but there has still been no sign of the body or the bedding his body was supposedly wrapped in.

"He wishes he could turn back time and was not involved in this," Naylor's lawyer said.

"Graeme Wright was the catalyst for the offending. He had the motive in relation to Mr Clark and recruited Dianna Wright and Mr Naylor to assist him. That involved some degree of exploitation of them as drug users. But for their drug addition, in all likelihood they would not have become involved in Mr Wright's plan."

The court heard Naylor left school early because of bullying and his parents had moved him to a rural area outside Maryborough to get him away from bad influences.

But Naylor met Dianna, also known as Tori, who hooked him into the drug world on the Fraser Coast, including Wright.

Naylor, 33, pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter and interfering with a corpse on May 25, 2009, but the details could not be published to ensure the trial for his co-accused Wright, who has now been found guilty of murder, was not prejudiced.

The courts have heard Wright concocted a plan for Dianna, who was sleeping with Naylor, to sleep with Mr Clark so his own partner, Kylie Mackney, would see that Mr Clark was not trustworthy.

Crown prosecutor Vicki Loury said Wright wrapped electrical cords around Mr Clark's neck before Naylor hit Mr Clark in the head, legs, arm and chest with the baseball bat.

Chief Justice Paul de Jersey said Naylor caused the death because he inflicted multiple violent blows, including using the baseball bat.

He said the crime was fitting of a 12-year jail sentence but Naylor had already served 27 months in custody that could not be declared.