Disturbing development after a man was charged with the murder of Audrey Griffin whose body was discovered in creek on the Central Coast
The man accused of murdering a teen, Audrey Griffin, has been found dead in his jail cell three days after his arrest.
Adrian Torrens, 53, was found unresponsive at Silverwater Jail on Thursday afternoon and couldn’t be revived.
Police are treating his death as a suicide.
He was arrested in Sydney on Monday – four weeks after 19-year-old Ms Griffin’s body was found in Erina Creek on the NSW Central Coast.
Ms Griffin had spent the previous night celebrating with friends at a Gosford pub.
She left the Gosford Hotel about 2am and walked towards her father’s house after unsuccessfully trying to get an Uber.
It appeared she took the longer route home along the water rather than cutting through the centre of Gosford because it would be easier to find a cab.
However, Ms Griffin never made it home and allegedly crossed paths with Torrens, who had recently committed 11 unrelated alleged domestic violence offences.
Ms Griffin’s death was not initially deemed as suspicious because a preliminary autopsy indicated she had drowned.
An alleged killer has been found dead in his jail cell in Sydney, three days after his arrest
Nineteen-year-old Audrey Griffin’s body was found in Erina Creek on the NSW Central Coast in March
In a harrowing phone call recorded by police, it’s alleged Torrens admitted the crime to an associate after his image was published in a NSW police bid to find him.
‘Why did I do it? I don’t know, I do not … I just f***ing clicked and I have no reason for my actions, I just did it man,’ Torrens said in the call, according to the Daily Telegraph.
‘I was so f***ed up, you know I was awake for four or five f***ing days, and I just did it.’
Torrens had not applied for bail in Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday and it was formally refused.
A spokesperson for Brisbane Water Police District said at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon that investigators wanted to provide answers for the family and the community.
‘This has not sat well with us as investigators from the outset and that’s why we stood up the strike-force.’
‘There has been a number of lines of inquiry leading up to the arrest yesterday but, significantly, on Friday morning, we received information which transferred the case to a homicide investigation.’
More to come.
Ms Griffin never made it home after choosing to walk to her house from a social night spent at Gosford Hotel
Police nabbed Torrens after releasing his image in an appeal for information
