A man and woman have been charged with murder a year after their alleged victim was found dead with multiple stab wounds.

The 48-year-old woman was discovered on Joshua Street, Goulburn, in the NSW Southern Tablelands, about 200km south-west of Sydney, on January 3. 

Officers forced entry to the property after receiving a welfare concern report and found the woman dead with multiple stab wounds.

Police say the woman was allegedly murdered on December 30, but her body wasn’t found until four days later. 

On Thursday, a 40-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man were both charged with one count of domestic violence-related murder following a search warrant. 

Police will allege the victim was known to her alleged attackers, having previously been in a domestic relationship with the 40-year-old woman for ‘several years’. 

Detective Superintendent Joe Doueihi, Commander of State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad, said that relationship had ‘severed’ in May of last year. 

He said the 40-year-old woman then commenced a relationship with the 44-year-old man who lived next door to the alleged victim. 

A man and woman have been charged with murder a year after their alleged victim was found dead with stab wounds in a home in Goulburn, NSW

The man, 44, was arrested on Thursday wearing just his boxers and a cast on his arm

The 44-year-old man, who had a cast on his arm, was escorted out of a home in just his boxers and taken to Goulburn Police Station. 

Det Supt Joe Doueihi said both of the alleged offenders were known to police. 

The pair were refused bail to appear in court on Friday.



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