A cleaner accused of helping to hide Isla Bell’s remains for three weeks is set to be freed on bail, as tears from the 19-year-old’s supporters filled a court.
Eyal Yaffe, 57, was granted bail in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday afternoon after being charged with assisting Bell’s accused murderer Marat Ganiev.
Bell was last seen leaving her Brunswick home on October 4.
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Police will allege CCTV recorded a fight through a gap in Ganiev’s apartment window, about 12.43am on October 7, and he was then accused of cleaning the apartment.
Yaffe, who works as a residential cleaner, allegedly arrived at the apartment on October 9 in a RAV4 towing a black fridge on a trailer and helped Ganiev move the fridge to the back of the apartment.
It’s alleged CCTV captured Yaffe and Ganiev removing an old fridge from the apartment, containing Bell’s remains, which was wrapped in plastic and placed on a trailer attached to the RAV4 …