A rubbish truck snaked steadily through the leafy suburban streets of Toowong, adding its beeping, hissing and crashing to the sounds of the city, picking up the council-stamped green general waste wheelie bins waiting on the kerb.
The truck's driver would have been unaware on the morning of March 28 that the body of 78-year-old Lesley Trotter was in one of those bins, and indiscriminately tossed her into the truck with the rubbish of her neighbours.
