Janet Fisicaro was a wealthy widow; Des Campbell was a former English police officer with a harem of girlfriends and a taste for sports cars and French champagne.
Des took Janet (his third wife) on a camping holiday and pitched their tent a few feet from a cliff edge. Her body was found at the bottom.
Australian-born Campbell, who left his job as a policeman in England while facing charges of sexual assault, told police that his wife fell over the 120-foot cliff after going outside at dusk to answer "nature's call".
He did not attend her funeral and a week later, made plans to see their home and then flew to Queensland for a five-star holiday with one of at least three other women he was seeing at the time.
Soon afterwards he withdrew $76,600 from a mortgage account, and travelled to the Philippines to bring back a woman he had met through an internet dating service. That woman is now his fourth wife, and they have two small children.
An inquest into Janet's death has heard evidence from several of Campbell's ex-girlfriends, including a British policewoman who flew from the UK to testify. They told of being seduced by the "charming" and "manipulative" 48-year-old, who swindled them out of tens of thousands of dollars.
A former friend, Adam Wilson, said Campbell had boasted of "shagging sluts" and preying on vulnerable, well-off women. Campbell told his brother's wife that Fisicaro was a "fat, ugly, dumb bitch" who was stalking him. But he also bragged that she was "filthy rich" after inheriting her late husband's estate, worth over $1 million.
According to a report in the New Zealand Herald, Campbell is the only "person of interest" named at the inquest, which continues in Sydney
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