Just weeks before her son killed himself and his ex-girlfriend in a horrific murder-suicide, Luke Noormets’ mother was heaping praise on the ‘wonderful’ young mum and the way she cared for her now-orphaned grandson.
Former Rebels bikie nominee Noormets, 33, was found dead at 11.30am on Thursday inside a burnt-out Escot Road home in Innaloo. He is believed to have taken his own life.
The grisly discovery came less than an hour after police found Georgia Lyall, 31, dead inside her Sabina Road home in South Guildford after residents heard a gunshot, believed to have been fired by Noormets.
Ms Lyall was left to raise her and Noormets’ son as a single mum after he was sentenced to seven years in jail in 2017 for kidnapping a drug dealer and subjecting himself to 13 hours of torture which included setting him on fire and waterboarding.
Despite Noormets being in jail from June, 2017, Ms Lyall appeared to maintain a relationship with her ex-partner’s family.
On May 14, Noormets’ mother Trish penned a heartwarming tribute to the young mum on her birthday.
“To our amazing Georgia – thank you for being a wonderful Mum to our grandson. Double barrel today with having a special birthday too. We are blessed to have you in our lives,” she wrote, sharing photos of Ms Lyall and the young boy.
Ms Lyall replied, thanking Ms Amaranti for her help over the years.
“Thank you for being the best grandma to our boy and such a big support for me,” she wrote.
Social media posts from Noormets’ family revealed he was out of jail and back with his child and Ms Lyall in December, 2021.
The couple appeared to reunite for some time, sharing happy photos of the three of them together, before the posts stopped.
Police rushed to the South Guildford home on Thursday and made the grisly discovery.
The couple’s son will now be cared for by Ms Lyall’s mother Robyn, according to a GoFundMe set up for the family.
“Georgia was an extremely dedicated mum who was doing an amazing job raising (him) on her own,” the page read.
The murder-suicide tragedy comes as it’s revealed the drug dealer Noormets bashed, abducted, water-boarded and set alight over a ‘small drug transaction’ was the ex-boyfriend of Ms Lyall.
According to court documents, victim Jack Tonta met Ms Lyall when she was in high school and the pair were in a relationship for a period of time. A few years later, well after the pair broke up, Ms Lyall continued her friendship with her former flame.
The documents also reveal that Ms Lyall introduced Noormets — a former Rebels bikie nominee — to Tonta who by 2017 had promised to deliver an “eight ball” of meth to him and former Rebel Steven Taylor.
It was Tonta’s failure to deliver the drug and cash he owed that led Noormets and Taylor to carry out the abduction and beating.
After Noormets, Taylor and Atkinson were arrested, Tonta then visited Ms Lyall, who was pregnant at the time with her son, at her home.
A year later, Tonta then contacted Ms Lyall on Facebook inquiring if Noormets had a lawyer and then offered to give that lawyer his “new statement”.
In another message in August 2018 Tonta told Ms Lyall that he was seeing a lawyer and that he was doing it “For you and Ur son xx” and in another he wrote: “Ur son will have his dad home soon. Ok. Make sure he is a good dad. That’s all I ask. I know you can’t reply but I promise ok. It’s already been sorted”.
It was these messages between the pair that led to Ms Lyall being caught up in the conspiracy trial against Taylor, his mother Christine, another man Simon Curry and Perth barrister Gary Rodgers.
The quartet were found guilty of conspiring to get Tonta to change his statement regarding Taylor and Atkinson’s involvement.
Mr Rodgers successfully overturned his conviction with WA’s Court of Appeal finding there was no evidence he agreed to bully Tonta into giving a new statement and acquitted him of the crime.
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