UPDATE, MONDAY 11AM: A man accused of murdering Mount Pleasant mum Dannyll Goodsell has not appeared for his first court case since being charged.
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Scott Cameron, 35, was due to appear at Ballarat Magistrates Court on Monday morning, however he did not appear in the dock or by video link.
The alleged details of the incident were not read out.
His defence lawyer David Tamanika told the court and presiding magistrate Gregory Robinson that he had been unable to see Cameron but that the accused had experienced “problems in custody” and “had been transported to another facility”.
Cameron was charged with murder on Saturday after Ms Goodsell’s body was found in a house at the corner of Kenworthy Place and Flockhart Street on Friday morning.
The prosecution requested the hand up brief be prepared and submitted by December 17, 2018.
Cameron has been remanded in custody and will next appear for a committal mention on February 7, 2019.
EARLIER: A man has been charged with the murder of mother Dannyll Goodsell, whose body was found during a house fire call-out on Friday morning.
Homicide squad detectives arrested the 35-year-old Mount Pleasant man in Ballarat on Saturday afternoon.
The man was charged with one count of murder and was remanded to appear at Ballarat Magistrates Court on Monday.
Firefighters and police were initially called to the house at the corner of Kenworthy Place and Flockhart Street about 8am on Friday to investigate smoke.
Once a small fire was extinguished, the body of Dannyll Goodsell was found inside.
Friends and family are paying tribute online to the mother of two who was originally from New South Wales.
"We need to bring her back home to NSW so she may now have that peace she desired and to be with her two children," a fundraising page says.
It is understood Ms Goodsell's two children live in NSW with extended family.
“I’ll do what ever I can to get you home because that’s where you wanted to be. My heart goes out to the kids and her mums,” Dani posted on the fundraising page.
Frightened neighbours say they want to move out of the troubled Mount Pleasant neighbourhood.
One female resident who lives nearby said she was afraid to be in her own home after a home invasion three weeks ago.
“I hadn’t recovered from the break in, now this. I want to move.”
Another neighbour said she had lived in fear for months.
“We wanted to move because of the trouble. There was always something unusual. But this is the last straw,” said one resident.
A nearby resident who has a clear view of the corner Kenworthy Place house from his front window, described people he had seen in the area as ‘dangerous’.
“I was brought up in housing commission in Wendouree West. I have seen lots of trouble, but what is happening here is something different,” he said.
“I’ve seen a lot of trouble around that house, young people screeching around in cars, gangs of youth with baseball bats and there are many houses in the neighbourhood with drug problems. I’ve even seen needles in the grass when I take my bins out.”
Smashed windows at the front of the house have now been boarded up.
EARLIER, SATURDAY, 3.30PM
It is beautifully sunny at Kenworthy Place in Mount Pleasant, but there’s a sombre feeling in the quiet street.
A young child who is the passenger of a car passing by stares intently out the window at the brown corner house that is surrounded by blue and white police tape.
More cars drive past slowly as the engine of a parked police van hums and birds chirp a lively spring tune.
Within the boundary of the blue police tape it seems as though time stands still.
But beyond the world moves on without young mother Dannyll Goodsell.
Homicide detectives and police are continuing work at the scene where the body of Ms Goodsell was found on Friday morning.
They are treating the death as suspicious.
Firefighters and police were initially called to the house on Kenworthy Place in Mount Pleasant around 8am to investigate smoke.
Once a small fire was extinguished, the body of Dannyll Goodsell was found inside.
A police spokesman on Saturday said it was not believed that the victim died due to the fire.
Friends and family have begun paying tribute online to the mother of two who was originally from NSW.
"We need to bring her back home to NSW so she may now have that peace she desired and to be with her two children," a fundraising page says.
It is understood Ms Goodsell's two children live in NSW with extended family.
“R.I.P Dannyll I'll always love you and you'll always have a piece of my heart and be in there forever. My heart goes out to our children ... I'll always be here for your two beautiful angels,” Sarah Charlie Bentley posted.
A nearby resident who has a clear view of the corner Kenworthy Place house from his front window, described people he had seen in the area as ‘dangerous’.
“I was brought up in housing commission in Wendouree West. I have seen lots of trouble, but what is happening here is something different,” he said.
“I’ve seen a lot of trouble around that house, young people screeching around in cars, gangs of youth with baseball bats and there are many houses in the neighbourhood with drug problems. I’ve even seen needles in the grass when I take my bins out.
I have seen lots of trouble, but what is happening here is something different.
- Mount Pleasant resident
One female resident who lives nearby said she was afraid to be in her own home.
Her home was broken into three weeks ago while she and her partner were asleep in their bedroom. After Friday’s events, she’s desperate to move.
“As soon as I woke up he (the intruder) went back to the room he entered in and was just sitting in the room,” she said.
“I haven’t recovered from the break in, now this. I want to move.”
Another nearby resident with young children said she was dreading bringing her children home.
“The kids haven’t been here but they are aware of it from the media. It’s sickening. On Monday I’ll start looking to move,” she said.
“We wanted to move because of the trouble. There was always something unusual. But this is the last straw.”
Homicide detectives continue their investigations, moving between their vehicle and inside the corner house.
There is a trampoline in the backyard, and a rusted old slide at the side of the house sitting in overgrown green grass.
Inside the house behind a smashed window, a toy monster truck sits on top of a chest of drawers that is covered with stickers, a Hawthorn Football Club bumper sticker in prominent position.
A patterned colourful sheet is used as a curtain, with prints of baboons, suns and monkeys lining each row.
The brown patchy fence on the side of the house is covered with the remains of white graffiti.
Black tyre marks line the road out front.
A neighbour who lives across the street was at home on Friday morning when emergency services were called to the scene.
“This is definitely not a quiet are. We frequently hear hooning and arguments,” the resident said.
Police on Saturday could not reveal the victim’s exact cause of death.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report online at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
- with Rachael Dexter and Erin Pearson
