A husband lay dead outside his lavish home. Then a desperate text was sent

“Please, I got money for petrol, I’m actual BEGGING you.”

Kieysha Jade Sky was allegedly pleading for her friend to pick her up from a Sunshine Coast address. She needed to “get away from here so bad”.

She explained she couldn’t talk about it.

The 19-year-old’s phone was later traced as being at the luxury house of a skincare entrepreneur the night a resident was stabbed to death, in what police allege was a brutal murder.

Sky and two teenage boys stand accused.

The desperate messages have been revealed in documents tendered to the Supreme Court as part of Sky’s bid for bail.

Hours before the teenager begged her friend for a lift, a neighbour had found Zdravko Bilic lifeless outside his home in the exclusive Napalle Street neighbourhood in Warana.

It was the dream home Bilic, 57, shared with his wife Gry Tomte, the founder of HÜD, a high-end skin and beauty clinic in locations across Melbourne.

A six-foot concrete fence surrounded the lavish five-bedroom home, metres from the beach.

But the driveway, where two vehicles – a BMW coupe and an MG wagon – were parked was ungated.

As a detective senior constable arrived on the scene, he put forensic covers over his shoes.

He noted there appeared to be a blood stain on the step above Bilic’s head. Fluid was coming from his mouth.

An autopsy report showed Bilic had been stabbed twice in the chest and abdomen.

Blood had been spilled on the floor inside the house, and the detective observed a claw hammer near the laundry door.

On the couch, a small tub of yoghurt sat on the arm rest, a spoon still in it. The television was on.

Police had been called to the property on the evening of July 14, 2025, after Tomte – away working in Melbourne – had raised the alarm.

Tomte recalled the last message she had received from her husband was at 9.39pm on July 13, wishing her good night.

But when she didn’t hear from him the following day, she instructed a neighbour how to get into the property to check on “Zed”, as he was known in the friendly neighbourhood.

The neighbour saw lights on at the home and their pet husky, Halo, inside at the door.

“As I opened the gate, straight away I saw Z laying down on the entrance step,” the neighbour told police.

“I tried to raise him, I put my hand on his head and it was cold, he felt completely cold.”

An accused killer

The documents tendered to the court paint a picture of the teenager’s life before the reports of Bilic’s death stunned Queenslanders.

She had been living with a friend in Logan, had a troubled upbringing, and had experienced domestic violence.

Now, the 19-year-old is facing a string of charges including murder, assault occasioning bodily harm and unlawful use of a motor vehicle.

Sky claims she only met one of her co-accused – boys aged 15 and 17 at the time – days before the alleged murder, and had only met the other in person about two weeks earlier.

The boys cannot be identified under Queensland’s youth justice laws.

Sky told police the boys had been using her phone – her boyfriend had started using it on July 15 because his was broken, and he had lost a second phone a week before.

“[The boyfriend’s friend] kept asking me to use my phone and he would use it for hours, I am not sure what he was doing on it. He just said his phone was shit.”

Police say they were relying on GPS location data as part of the case.

They confirmed Sky’s phone had been at the scene of the alleged murder, and had been connected to the suspected getaway car.

Bilic and Tomte moved into the $2.5 million house in Napalle Street in 2022.

The pair had married in 2005 in Canada, first meeting in Melbourne when Tomte was visiting Australia.

Bilic was born in Bosnia, and was an Australian resident with Canadian citizenship. Norwegian-born Tomte regularly travelled to Melbourne for work, with clinics in St Kilda and Northcote.

Bilic had worked at Ginger Sports as a soccer coach, running soccer programs and training sessions for children.

‘We have felt safe and have not ever had our home or cars broken into.’

Gry Tomte, to police

“He loved coaching and had a passion for mentoring young people,” Tomte told police in court documents.

Tomte was Bilic’s only family in Australia, with his parents and brother still in Canada.

Operation X-Ray Elting

CCTV footage from Napalle Street near midnight on July 13 showed a dark-coloured SUV stopped outside Bilic and Tomte’s home for about seven minutes, with the headlights left on, according to court documents.

The vehicle then appeared to drive away somewhat quickly, police said, turning onto Girraween Street. Shortly after, two people could be seen running from the house, appearing to chase the SUV.

Police launched their investigation, X-Ray Elting, as they identified other property and vehicle offences on July 13.

At Nirimba, some 20 minutes’ drive south, a dark-coloured SUV was spotted about 11.20pm, with police noting the vehicle driving slowly while two people walked down the road trying to open the doors of parked cars. The vehicle appeared to be the one in the Napalle Street footage.

The car was later identified to be a Jeep Compass, which had allegedly been stolen from Waterford, in Logan, south of Brisbane, on July 12 between 5.30am and 7am.

Police say a fingerprint at the Logan house was from one of the boys alleged to have been at Bilic’s property.

A woman reported being woken in the morning and finding two boys in her bedroom after her husband had left for work.

“He was blocking the exit and I had nowhere to run from the room,” she told police.

“I was afraid to attack him because I didn’t know if they had a weapon. I looked at his hands but I didn’t see anything.

“I started screaming …[one of the boys] encouraged the male in the dark hoodie to do something with me.”

She says one of the males punched her in the face, causing her to fall to the floor where she lay in shock with a bleeding face.

She then ran to the garage and out to the neighbours’, and saw the two males running towards what appeared to be a dark-coloured SUV.

The woman reported expensive handbags, her daughter’s wallet and jewellery estimated to be at least $2000 was stolen.

Police found the vehicle in Fortitude Valley on July 14 in the car park of a childcare centre on Warry Street.

Inside, along with a purple-and-black vape and lolly wrappers, police found a silver flick knife stuck to the centre of the console, a pitchfork in the footwell of the back seat, a stolen wallet, and another wallet identified as the Logan woman’s.

They also found the keys to an MG vehicle.

Sky told police how in the days leading up to Bilic’s death, the group had travelled around Queensland’s south-east because they were bored.

A bid for freedom

In applying for bail, Sky wrote that she was a proud, young Aboriginal girl.

She talked of experiencing domestic violence and having to grow up too fast.

She wrote that she had been in the process of moving back in with her mother, as she felt she needed her. “I was so lost and broken and have been for quite some time.”

Her co-accused let her down, she wrote.

“I feel as though he let me down, causing me to let down myself and my family. I have never been in trouble with the law before so all of this stuff is very confusing to me.”

The case remains before the court.