Alleged ‘honey trap’ murder suspect Jade McCaskie is approaching the end of her court-ordered rehabilitation while living on bail at the eastern suburbs home of her wealthy benefactor.
Police allege McCaskie played a central role in the fatal fall of a father-of-one at a western Sydney apartment complex earlier this year. On Thursday, she left the $3 million home of her ‘close friend’, Sydney businessman Henry Go, to report to Rose Bay police station. Mr Go paid her $100,000 bail bond to secure her release from custody.
Mr Go has known McCaskie since she was 19 and has agreed to support her and vouch for her conduct while she awaits trial on murder charges.
McCaskie is the only one of the four accused people not in custody over the death of 44-year-old Nathan Hill. Prosecutors allege she lured him to his death using nude photographs, a ‘hot’ video, and the promise of drugs and possibly sex.
Hill died after falling from an apartment building in Castle Hill, where he had allegedly arranged to meet McCaskie in May this year.
Messages allegedly exchanged between the pair on the encrypted Signal service before the fatal fall, and obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail, show McCaskie purportedly asking Hill for money before sending the intimate images.
Alleged ‘honey trap’ murder suspect Jade McCaskie reported to Rose Bay police station on Thursday while living on bail at the $3 million eastern suburbs home of businessman Henry Go
McCaskie stepped into the sunshine to report to police as part of her bail conditions, with her wealthy benefactor Henry Go driving her. Her murder trial could be up to two years away
McCaskie, 35, allegedly lured 44-year-old father-of-one Nathan Hill to his death with nude photographs, a ‘hot’ video, and the promise of drugs and possibly sex
McCaskie was wearing a diamond ring when photographed by the Mail on August 11, but her fingers were bare when she was pictured in Rose Bay on Thursday
Her co-accused, Todd Ryan, Jake Campbell and McCaskie’s boyfriend, 30-year-old Viet Phong Pham, have not applied for bail.
McCaskie and Phong appear to have ended their relationship since the Castle Hill incident. She was photographed wearing a diamond ring on August 11, but no longer had it on her hand when she was seen this week.
On Thursday, McCaskie was driven by Mr Go to the Rose Bay police station on one of Sydney’s hottest spring days.
Dressed in beige trousers, black thongs and a white tank top, with her long hair falling over her shoulders, she hurried into the station and shielded her eyes from the bright sunlight. The police station is a regular reporting location for accused people living in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Released into Mr Go’s care after her second bail application, McCaskie was ordered to complete 12 weeks of rehabilitation at the Reset My Future clinic. Her treatment is due to finish this month, although it is not known whether she will continue voluntarily.
She is believed to spend most of her time indoors under virtual house arrest at Mr Go’s garden apartment, where she recently marked her 35th birthday.
McCaskie is prohibited by court order from using a smartphone or accessing WhatsApp, Snapchat and other mobile applications. She must also abstain from drugs and alcohol. She had reportedly stayed at the property on and off for several years before Hill’s alleged murder.
McCaskie, who turned 35 while awaiting trial for murder, made a brief trip to check in at Rose Bay police station, a familiar reporting location for accused people in Sydney’s east
McCaskie is receiving treatment at the Reset My Future drug rehabilitation centre while on bail
Mr Go, McCaskie’s bail benefactor, was briefly seen with her at his home on August 11
McCaskie’s lawyers argue the case against her is weak, but prosecutors say she played a ‘crucial role’ in luring Hill to the Crane Road location where he was allegedly attacked by McCaskie’s boyfriend and two other men.
The Mail has seen CCTV grabs showing McCaskie hiding in the bin room of the unit complex while texting her boyfriend and co-accused via Signal, saying: ‘Just get him. I want the money. I’m taking all of it.’
Minutes after those messages were sent, Hill – who had been asked by McCaskie to bring a ‘litre or two’ of liquid drugs, possibly GHB, to the apartment – fell from the third floor after being allegedly set upon by McCaskie’s three co-accused.
Hill plunged about 11 metres after jumping to escape the alleged violent ambush, his screams of ‘help me, help me, help me’ waking neighbours who called emergency services to the scene.
Paramedics found a stricken Hill dying from head and chest injuries in a ground floor courtyard, allegedly uttering the words: ‘They were bashing me so I jumped… I jumped to get away.’
In a Signal message seen by the Mail, one of McCaskie’s co-accused, Todd Ryan, allegedly urged her to ‘get out of here’ following Hill’s fall, after which she fled the bin room and took off for Port Macquarie with Pham.
McCaskie didn’t look quite as glamorous as her Instagram photos while reporting for bail
Police allege Nathan Hill, 44, (pictured) was lured to a unit block in Castle Hill for an exchange of drugs and was set upon before he plunged to his death
An ambulance outside the Crane Road, Castle Hill apartment block where paramedics found a stricken Nathan Hill in a courtyard dying of injuries from an 11-metre fall
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Among hundreds of pages of Signal texts tendered in McCaskie’s NSW Supreme Court bail application, she began by messaging Hill about drugs, sex and money on the afternoon of Friday, May 15 this year.
At 7.08pm, McCaskie made her first alleged demand for money or drugs, asking Hill: ‘Can u send me 80.’
Hill replied at about 8.30pm, ‘I can soon. Can U send me that XXX pic at all?’
He referred to her as ‘babe’ later that evening, said that he could get ‘about 200 mls for now’ and asked her to hang out with him later.
By 12.24am on Saturday, she again alluded to the exchange of intimate photos for cash, texting: ‘If I send u something … pls send me money I’m at the pokies.’
Minutes later, he asked, ‘U wanna cum over too?’ to which she replied, ‘Cum lol.’
When he said he was ‘gonna send U 50 now’, she responded, ‘More more imma bout to send,’ and, ‘I swear to God if this doesn’t get me more than 100, you’re dead.’
McCaskie was arrested in Woolloomooloo on May 21 and charged with the alleged joint criminal enterprise murder of Hill, who had plunged to his death four days earlier
In the encrypted Signal messages, McCaskie asked the deceased for money and in exchange sent him a photo and a ‘hot’ video. (Above: a mock-up of the texts, along with a pixelated image that is not the nude shot sent by the accused)
Texts exchanged between McCaskie and her boyfriend on the night Hill died in the courtyard of a Castle Hill apartment block included her allegedly urging: ‘I want the money. Just get him’
At 12.40am, McCaskie texted over the promised nude image and at 12.41am Hill replied, ‘F*** that is one of the nicest p***ys’ babe.
At 12.43am, Jade messaged: ‘Send me more money right now.’ Hill replied by 12.55am: ‘You are f***in awesome.’
At 1.36am, McCaskie texted, ‘another 50 wtf lol,’ and he responded at 1.38am: ‘Ok babe. That video is as hot as f***.’
Between that time and 4.38am, she texted him, ‘I need more’, ‘I need drinks’, ‘Hey babe… send me 100 pls,’ and he responded: ‘I have some drinks.’
The plan was then hatched for Hill to drive up to Castle Hill that evening for an alleged exchange of drugs.
Hill parked his Hyundai outside the Castle Hill address, a four-storey block of flats on Crane Road, at 2.01am, by which time McCaskie was hiding in the ground floor bin room.
McCaskie was arrested along with her boyfriend and co-accused Viet Pham. Two other men have also been charged with Nathan’s Hill’s alleged murder and remain in custody
McCaskie hid in the bin room of 23-25 Crane Road, Castle Hill while her friend Nathan Hill was met by the men who are now her co-accused in Hill’s alleged murder
Hill was allegedly lured to these Crane Road, Castle Hill apartments for drugs and partying, but fell to his death after allegedly being attacked by three men
McCaskie and Viet Pham then exchanged texts via Signal in which they discussed the upcoming ‘exchange’ of drugs and money, with Hill seen on CCTV carrying a ‘small satchel probably of prohibited drugs’.
Hill was escorted by co-accused Todd Ryan up to the third floor where Viet Pham and a third man, Jake Campbell, allegedly lay in wait.
At 1.51am, Jade texted Pham: ‘Srsly I’m taking everything his got.’ Between 2.05am and 2.18am, she messaged Pham repeatedly, saying: ‘I want the money. Simple as that. Use take the rest. Dude just get him. Go for it.’
At 2.18am, Jade texted Pham: ‘Get his phone… Take his phone. Get his phone. His talking s**t.’
Stills of CCTV footage at 2.21am showed three men, with hoodies or caps obscuring their faces, walking past behind the bin room where McCaskie was sheltering beside black plastic bags while sitting near a large bin and talking on her phone.
At 2.28am, Ryan texted McCaskie: ‘F*** get out of here. Babe you outta here.’
Court documents reveal that at 1.31pm the next day, Monday, May 18, McCaskie messaged Henry Go via Signal, saying ‘I’m in so much trouble,’ to which he replied: ‘What happened? Why are u in trouble? Can u tell me?’
McCaskie wrote, ‘Not on this. I’ll call u.’ Mr Go responded, ‘U probably need to go make a statement in the morning’, to which Jade wrote back: ‘Henry no.’
On the afternoon of Thursday, May 21, officers arrested McCaskie and Viet Pham at his Woolloomooloo unit along with, according to police facts, ‘replica firearms, knives, prohibited drugs and cash’.
Police charged McCaskie over her alleged role in the joint criminal enterprise of Hill’s alleged murder.