A woman from the New South Wales Central Coast has allegedly been murdered by her husband in the United States.<\/p>\n
Meaghan Bowler, a former tennis coach at Terrigal, was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband Jesse Jones in their Florida home on Thursday.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, the 39-year-old called 911 to report that he had stabbed his wife and that she was dead.<\/p>\n
“Deputies arrived and Jones answered the door while still on the phone to 911,” it said.<\/p>\n
Mr Jones directed deputies to the second floor bathroom where Ms Bowler was found “unconscious and unresponsive in the bathtub with multiple stab wounds”, the Manatee County Court Clerk’s affidavit read.<\/p>\n
Emergency Medical Services attended the scene and were able to gain a faint pulse after working on the 32-year-old for 20 minutes, but she died in Sarasota Memorial Hospital a short time later.<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit, Mr Jones told 911 dispatchers and deputies at the scene, that he stabbed his wife several times during an argument in the kitchen.<\/p>\n
Mr Jones has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and remains in custody, with a pre-trial detention hearing scheduled at the Manatee County Judicial Centre tonight, Australian time.<\/p>\n
The couple’s two small children were at the home at the time.<\/p>\n
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is providing consular assistance to Ms Bowler’s family in Australia.<\/p>\n
“We send our deepest condolences to the family at this difficult time,” a DFAT spokesperson said in statement.<\/p>\n
The Bowler family is hoping to be able to bring her home soon and shared the news of her death on social media.<\/p>\n
“She was deeply loved by all of us and brought so much to our lives.”<\/p>\n
“Losing her has left a hole in our family that can never be filled.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman from the New South Wales Central Coast has allegedly been murdered by her husband in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5713,28,30,29,105307,628],"class_list":["post-236683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-domestic-violence","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-meaghan-bowler","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}