“If it all gets too much for me you will find me at The Gap,” Melissa Caddick told her brother Adam Grimley, the inquest into the missing fraudster’s presumed death has heard.
In his opening address, counsel assisting the coroner, Jason Downing, SC, also said that, in August 2020, three months before she disappeared, Caddick was in severe financial stress.
Melissa Caddick’s mother, Barb Grimley, and brother Adam Grimley at the coronial inquest on Monday.Credit:Nick Moir
As she walked along the cliffs near her Dover Heights home, she told a friend, “If I am going to end it, it is going to be here.”
The inquest also heard that, in 2012, Caddick had gone missing during a tumultuous period of her life. Her then-husband Tony Caddick discovered her affair with her hairdresser, Anthony Koletti, whom she later married.
At the time she gave her friend a code consisting of four letters of the alphabet to be passed on to her brother in the case of her disappearance.
Sydney businesswoman Melissa Caddick disappeared in November 2020.
Deputy State Coroner Elizabeth Ryan heard that Caddick, 49, disappeared on Thursday, November 12, 2020. The day before her disappearance the corporate watchdog ASIC, with the assistance of the Australian Federal Police, executed search warrants at her home and a safety deposit box.
The inquest heard that the last people to see her, other than family members, were officers searching her premises. They left at 6.22pm on Wednesday evening. Her 16-year-old son, who is referred to as Witness B, heard the front door open and shut in the early hours of November 12.
In February 2021, Caddick’s running shoe containing her partial remains washed up at Bournda Beach on the Far South Coast of NSW.
However, the inquest heard that forensic experts have been unable to determine whether Caddick’s foot was severed by “blunt force” or by decomposition.
Anthony Koletti arrives at the coronial inquest into the presumed death of his wife Melissa Caddick.Credit:Nick Moir
Koletti, along with Adam Grimley and Caddick’s parents Barbara and Ted Grimley, were sitting in the hearing room.
Ryan said that, while Caddick had allegedly defrauded victims of between $20 million and $30 million and had seriously financially harmed a number of victims, she (Ryan) was still aware that Caddick was a wife, daughter, sister and mother.
Ryan acknowledged her family’s shock, bewilderment and grief and the two years of uncertainty they had been living with.
She also said, “Hopefully, it will bring you some answers.”
Melissa Caddick’s father Ted Grimley arrives at the coronial inquest.Credit:Nick Moir
The inquest continues.
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