Overview

• Rebelo’s legal team has been granted leave to finalize appeal submissions by 4pm on September 25, according to the Court of Appeal filings.
• The appeal relies on testimony that the shower ran at a normal temperature when the body was found and that the home’s system provided only 30–40 minutes of hot water, implying it was turned on around 1:50pm.
• Prosecutors argued he killed his mother between 10:33am and 11:40am to claim about $1.15 million from policies he arranged, citing mobile-tower data and alleging the scene was staged.
• A jury convicted him in late 2024 and he was sentenced in April 2025 to life with a 25-year non-parole period; he admitted forging documents for insurance claims but denies the killing.
• Trial evidence was largely circumstantial and a coronial inquest did not establish a cause of death, with a forensic pathologist noting a cardiac collapse was possible.