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| Final hours of missing Melbourne woman Isla Bell’s life captured by CCTV, police allege | |
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| Nineteen-year-old last seen leaving her Brunswick home in October and remains yet to be formally identified have been found in Dandenong | |
| The final hours of missing teen Isla Bell’s life have been captured on CCTV in the Melbourne apartment building of her alleged killer, according to court documents. | |
| The documents released by the court on Wednesday afternoon detail how the 19-year-old allegedly ended up at Marat Ganiev’s St Kilda East apartment on 7 October. | |
| Bell was seen leaving her home in Brunswick on 4 October but family members have said she was active on social media until three days later. | |
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| Ganiev, 53, appeared in Melbourne magistrates court on Wednesday charged with Bell’s murder. | |
| Eyal Yaffe, 57, from Hampton, faced a charge of assisting an offender with murder. | |
| Neither man was required to enter a plea to the charges, and the allegations against them are unproven. | |
| According to court documents, police allege that Ganiev told officers that he had moved Bell’s remains but denied killing her. | |
| Ganiev’s building was surrounded by a CCTV system that covered the front door and window of the apartment, according to a Victoria police summary. Bell was seen entering the apartment for the last time on 5 October and was never seen to leave again, according to police. | |
| Two days later, police allege in court documents: “What appears to be a fight can be seen through a gap in the front kitchen window of Ganiev’s apartment. | |
| “Investigators observed what appears to be Bell’s head whipping around as if she has been struck. | |
| “She falls to the ground and Ganiev can then be seen striking her on the ground of the kitchen. | |
| “What appears to be Bell’s head can be seen rising up before being pushed back down by Ganiev’s arm.” | |
| Bell was captured on CCTV through the same window up until 2am on 7 October, the documents said. During the next few days, Ganiev is shown allegedly cleaning the apartment. | |
| According to the documents, A fridge wrapped in clear plastic and black tape was allegedly moved from the apartment in a trailer attached to a RAV4 by the two men and taken to Caulfield South, where it stayed until 22 October. | |
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| Police allege the fridge was used to store Bell’s body. | |
| A neighbour reported the fridge to police because it was attracting flies and had a “foul smell”, the documents said. The trailer carrying the fridge was allegedly moved to a Bentleigh East property before being shifted to Mulgrave days later in a Hino removal van. | |
| The police summary alleges that a resident discovered Bell’s remains on 18 November after he removed the plastic wrapping, the fridge door swung open and a bag fell out. He believed the bag contained animal remains and dumped the fridge on a street corner near hard rubbish in Bentleigh. | |
| The man then placed the bag holding Bell’s remains in a residential rubbish bin before later contacting police, the court documents said. | |
| Human remains, which are yet to be formally identified, were found at a waste management facility in Dandenong, in Melbourne’s outer east, on Tuesday evening, police have alleged. | |
| Detectives raided homes in Bentleigh East and Mulgrave on Tuesday. | |
| Bell’s family have been notified of the discovery and police say they will be provided support services. | Bell’s family have been notified of the discovery and police say they will be provided support services. |
| Her mother, Justine Spokes, had previously made emotional pleas for information about her whereabouts including at a press conference on 22 October, the day Bell would have turned 20. | |