Isla Bell's alleged murder caught on CCTV, police say in hearings ...
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Nineteen-year-old Isla Bell was bashed to death inside a Melbourne apartment in an attack that was caught on CCTV cameras, police allege.
A preliminary brief of evidence, prepared by police, was released by the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday evening after Marat Ganiev, 53, and Eyal Yaffe, 57, faced filing hearings.
Mr Ganiev is charged with murdering Ms Bell and Mr Yaffe is charged with assisting an offender.
According to police documents, Mr Ganiev admitted transporting Ms Bell's remains but denied assaulting her or causing her death.
The allegations are unproven and neither man has been required to enter a plea to the charges, given the early stage of the case.
Ms Bell was reported missing from her Brunswick home on October 4.
Police announced overnight that three men had been arrested after human remains were found at a tip in Dandenong.
Marat Ganiev, pictured at a younger age on his social media, has been remanded in custody on a murder charge. (Facebook)
The police remand summary states Ms Bell met Mr Ganiev and an associate, Miro Sol, at an apartment in St Kilda East from October 5.
It is alleged that just after midnight on October 7, she sent a Snapchat post to a friend saying she had found "the best Russian sugar daddy" who was lavishing her with gifts and had saved her from "sex traffickers".
But police say the messages abruptly stopped soon after and that Ms Bell was killed.
At 12.43am, CCTV cameras captured what appeared to be a fight through a gap through the front kitchen window of Mr Ganiev's apartment.
"Investigators observed what appears to be Bell's head whipping around as if she has been struck," the brief states.
"She falls to the ground and Ganiev can then be seen striking her on the ground of the kitchen. What appears to be Bell's head can be seen rising up before being pushed back down by Ganiev's arm.
"Over the next few days, Ganiev can be seen engaging in extensive cleaning of his apartment," the brief says, and that a fridge was moved into, then out of the apartment over the following week-and-a-half.
That fridge was allegedly taken to a house in Hampton, where a neighbour reported to police that a foul smell was attracting flies.
Investigators alleged the fridge was moved to other locations around Melbourne and that Mr Ganiev was seen throwing out a bag that police retrieved and believed belonged to Ms Bell.
Mr Ganiev and Mr Yaffe were arrested on Tuesday after police found remains at a Dandenong tip.
It is alleged Mr Yaffe was due to fly out of Australia to Bulgaria on Wednesday, having purchased flights after being interviewed by police.
Police said Mr Yaffe "is regularly in contact with persons who have significant criminal histories in Victoria" for drug trafficking.
The court documents reveal police first tried to speak with Mr Ganiev on October 19, after his details appeared in Ms Bell's phone records.
Isla Bell's family and friends have advertised her disappearance widely across Melbourne since early October. (ABC News: Rudy De Santis)
Police allege in the brief that Mr Ganiev initially denied any knowledge of what happened to the fridge after it was taken from his apartment but then admitted to having transported Ms Bell's remains after she died at his home.
"He stated he did not know how she had died and that he did not assault her or cause her death", the brief says.
Mr Yaffe is expected to apply for bail on Friday.
Mr Ganiev has been remanded in custody to re-appear in court in March.
