April 6, 2025
When Compassion is called Murder by the Police?
When Compassion is called Murder …
A Queensland woman Kylie Truswell-Mobbs has been charged with murder after allegedly ‘accelerating’ her dying husband’s death.
Police claim the woman gave her partner a ‘double dose’ of pain medication, killing him within hours reports Demi Huang for 7News Australia.
A Queensland woman has been charged with the alleged murder of her dying partner by giving him a lethal dose of prescription medication to hasten his death.
Kylie Ellina Truswell-Mobbs, 50, was arrested at her Alexandra Hills home in southeast Brisbane on Wednesday following a 17-month investigation into the death of her then 56-year-old partner, David Mobbs.
Mobbs reportedly died at Alexandra Hills on December 6, 2023.
He was suffering from motor neurone disease, a condition that gradually weakens the nerves controlling muscles, making it increasingly difficult to move, speak, swallow, and breathe.
His family and care agency raised concerns with police, prompting an investigation into his death as well as his health, care, and treatment at the time.
Police said Mobbs was in his last stages of life and had been “in and out of hospital in the weeks and months leading up to this time”.
Truswell-Mobbs allegedly “took unlawful actions in administering lethal levels of prescription medication to accelerate” his death, a police statement alleges.
Detective Acting Inspector Rod Watts said Truswell-Mobbs allegedly gave him a “double dose” of his prescribed pain medication, which killed him within hours.
Watts said the couple had been together for “a number of years” and lived together but were not married.
However, photos on social media show them holding a Certificate of Marriage.
A Facebook profile for Mobbs also lists his bio as saying “Love my wife”.
While ruling out domestic violence, he said police believe it is a case of murder, not assisted suicide, noting that “none of it had been formalised”.
“There’s a process you need to go through with assisted dying and, in this situation, none of those processes were followed,” he said.
Watts also said no financial motive was suspected, as no life insurance policies or similar benefits were found.
He added Truswell-Mobbs had been co-operative with police throughout the investigation and was not surprised when officers arrived to arrest her on Wednesday.
Truswell-Mobbs appeared before Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday, when the matter was briefly mentioned before being adjourned.
She was remanded in custody and will next appear in court on April 28.
Editor’s Note
This is an awful story for sure. However, is it murder?
A genuine act of compassion should never be treated as wilful killing.
Where is the public interest in calling this murder?
That Kylie is in custody only makes matters worse.
This woman has, presumably, not only lost the love of her life in the most traumatic of circumstances but the Queensland Police seem to be hanging her out to dry.
Are they making an example of what happens if one strays outside the highly restrictive Queensland VAD law?
Unless there is more to the story than meets the eye, why is this not an assisted suicide?
What are the facts that make Kylie an alleged murderer?
What do others need to be aware of?

Kylie and David Mobbs, on their wedding day
When Compassion is called Murder by the Police