A man accused of killing his ex-wife and dumping her body in the Brisbane River allegedly kept images on his phone of her being sexually assaulted while unconscious, a court has heard.

Crystal Beale, 49, confronted Jesse Beale about the photos in the hours before her death, the Supreme Court in Brisbane heard on Wednesday. The next day, her body was pulled from the river near the Brisbane Corso in Yeronga.

Mr Beale allegedly searched the Bureau of Meteorology for tide times that night. The following day, he allegedly searched for whether a VPN hides search histories, and “CCTV cameras near me”.

Jesse Beale was arrested and charged over the alleged murder of his former wife Crystal Beale. Credit: Facebook

The mother of two was last seen alive in West End, after she went out to dinne

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