Overview

• Crawford was granted Supreme Court bail in May with a $250,000 surety, a nightly curfew at his Upper Lockyer home and daily police check-ins, and he was arrested on June 14 for allegedly breaking the curfew.
• He remains accused of murdering his wife, psychologist Frances Crawford, whose body was found beside a ride-on lawnmower at their rural property on July 30, 2024.
• Prosecutors contend he strangled his wife during an argument and then staged the scene to appear as a lawnmower accident.
• Forensic evidence presented by the Crown includes trauma to the victim’s neck and head and Crawford’s DNA under her wife’s fingernails.
• Crawford is due to reappear in Toowoomba Magistrates Court on August 14 to face both the bail-breach and murder charges.