Open case: Australian woman to be tried for her mother’s murder in 2001

A 46-year-old Sydney woman was ordered to stand trial for the murder of her mother 19 years ago.

Isabela Carolina Camelo-Gomez, formerly known as Megan Jones, is charged with strangling and stabbing her mother, Irene Jones, on the morning of November 2, 2001.

In a black print dress and high heels, Camelo-Gomez appeared briefly in Downing Center Local Court on Thursday before New South Wales Chief Justice Graham Henson.

Henson sent her to trial and set an arraignment date in December, when the defendant’s attorney indicated that he would plead not guilty.

Police allege that Camelo-Gomez killed Irene Jones at her home in Lansvale, southwest Sydney, when she was 27 and her mother was 56.

He reportedly ran to a neighbor’s house and called the police, telling them that a man had broken in, attacked his mother and escaped.

A post-mortem examination found that Jones had died from strangulation and a stab in the neck.

NSW unsolved homicide detectives began re-investigating Jones’ death in 2017 after a NSW coroner referred her to unsolved investigators.

Camelo-Gomez, a mother of three, was arrested when she was pulling out trash cans outside her Bondi Junction apartment on the morning of September 24 last year.

After one night in custody, he successfully applied for bail and will remain on bail, with conditions, until his trial.

Camelo-Gómez will be arraigned on December 11, possibly to stand trial next year.