Police are yet to release the name of a woman found murdered at a house in Bowraville this week.
It’s alleged the 43-year-old New Zealand national was beaten to death on Thursday night.
24-year-old Adam John Kennedy has been charged with her murder and will face Port Macquarie Local Court via video-link tomorrow.
The woman’s house in Toormina remains under 24-hour guard as police continue to search for evidence.
Shocked neighbours say she was quiet and kept to herself.
I was a close friend of the victim. She was a beautiful soul, vivacious, warm, energetic, friendly and irrepressible, just having had a breast removed from cancer. She was still having reconstructive surgery. She was a battler and never afraid of hard work and for this to have happened to her is just the worst kind of wrong imaginable. Bring back Capital punishment!