As Elly’s father I have fully investigated my daughter’s Murder over 9 long years and I have now obtained all the facts and answers with supporting evidence to prove these facts and circumstances surrounding the murder of my daughter Elly Rose Warren. Therefore I am now in a very “strong position” to finally write a full factual summary of the circumstances below.

the murder of ELLY Rose WARREN Summary of circumstances

Elly Warren was an Australian woman who was murdered at Tofo Beach the province of Inhambane in the South Eastern part of Mozambique in 2016. Elly was born and raised in Mordialloc a suburb of Melbourne attending Parkdale Secondary College. Upon her return from Mozambique she had planned to attend James Cook University to study marine biology.

Elly was in Mozambique on a six-week trip where she was volunteering and working alongside scientists for Underwater Africa, a volunteering marine research conservation program. She was travelling by herself in Africa and during her time in Mozambique she stayed in a hut bungalow at Casa Barry Lodge in a popular diving resort at Tofo Beach. The marine research team would take a boat out to the reefs off the coast of Tofo, a small fishing village where Elly would scuba dive with a team of Marine biologists and scientists exploring and studying the abundances of teeming marine life in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar.

On Tuesday November 8th 2016 Elly left Casa Barry Lodge as her six weeks program had finished, for accommodation at Wuyani Pariango backpackers in Tofo, where she had left her belongings. Elly was with friends that evening and was last seen talking with them at 11.30pm and she appeared normal with no “ripped apart t-shirt” seen on her at this time. This was the last time any of her friends had seen Elly alive. She was at the end of the six week program with Underwater Africa having been booked to arrive home on the 13th November 2016. However on Wednesday morning the 9th November, Elly's body was discovered by a local fisherman at 5am at a toilet block near a street market place in Tofo.

Initial Investigation

Directly after Elly’s death, there were inconsistent reports as to the cause of and manner of Elly’s death. Initially a Inhambane police spokesman Detective Juma Dauto said: "It looks like an accident" and "we are in doubt as to what could have happened." He went on: "She didn't have a scratch, didn't have a bruise on her indicating there was no violence or rape. I guarantee it. I have total confidence she was not raped. The community here is shocked, this has never happened. Everybody wants to know what happened." Right after her death, Melbourne newspaper The Age reported: “Australian government information — from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) and the Australian high commission in South Africa — suggests Elly was found on the beach near a toilet block possibly raped and murdered.”

The Mozambique autopsy was given to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) through back channels by the Mozambique Chief Inspector in 2016 concluded it was a “violent death Homicide” with an “abundance of sand packing the airways”. There was a second autopsy in South Africa which stated the cause of death as aspirating a lot of sand packing her airways to the lower levels of her lungs. Surprisingly a third autopsy was asked for by the Melbourne Coroner at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM) which found “no major sand in the airways whatsoever and not even any sand in both lungs as the Melbourne pathologist did not report finding any sand in her lungs in his autopsy report, consequently he concluded the death as “Undetermined” in 2016!!! This then raised the possibility at the time, did the Melbourne Pathologist examine the correct body at the VIFM by the family!!!!

I was “very concerned” at this time as I had spoken directly with the South African pathologist over the phone on the 20th November 2016 and she informed me Elly’s airways were “packed” with sand and that she “suspected Foul Play” with the marks on her face which had become more evident over time, 11 days after Elly’s death. Therefore it did not add up at all that the Melbourne pathologist did not find Elly’s airways and lungs still full with sand blocking her airways as he concluded her cause of death as Undetermined!!! A meeting was then arranged with the Melbourne Pathologist, family and AFP for a please explain all recorded with consent where the Melbourne Pathologist still states he found no sand whatsoever and would state this in court if asked, but he was very confident it was Elly’s body he had examined!!! It took 7 long years later for the family to have the coroner change the Melbourne pathologist finding of undetermined in 2016/17, at the inquest in 2023 to “aspirating a large amount of sand completely packing her airways “chockablock” causing her death”!!!!

There was a “radiology report” requested by me in 2019. This report was generated from the CT Scan “just before” the Melbourne autopsy examination on the 22nd November 2016 and clearly showed very “high density readings” of sand 1290HU and 947HU equivalent to “cement density” and “bone density” in some areas of Elly’s airways with both lung trees completely filled with sand!!! This was later all confirmed as “solid factual evidence given” at the inquest in 2023 by the Radiologist!

I had also discovered with my investigation in 2019 that “vital material trace evidence” was also “overlooked” by the Melbourne pathologist, a ladies sanitary item which was removed and placed inside Elly’s body in a plastic bag by the South African Pathologist for repatriation to the Melbourne VIFM. This was later “confirmed” as solid facts by the South African pathologist in evidence given under oath at the inquest in 2023. I had sent a letter to the coroner Mr Bracken at the time asking for a full investigation into this vital missing evidence dated the 10th September 2019. (This is in Correspondence on this website). The pathologist at the inquest has stated “that someone can be sexually assaulted and show no signs,” adding to the importance of this vital evidence which has never been “Found” at the VIFM and tested for DNA given the “highly suspicious circumstances” of Elly’s death at the time!!! This was a “huge disappointment for Elly’s family” as this was “CRITICAL” material trace evidence which has “never” been found and should have been forensically tested for DNA!!!

After my phone conversation with Dr Klepp on the 20th November 2016 she contacted the Australian Embassy in Pretoria the very next day 21st November.

An email below was given to the family November 2016 from DFAT regarding correspondence from Dr Klepp;-

‘Dr Klepp has spoken to the father and he has given her permission requesting to ask for any information or documentation be given to her’. ‘Dr Klepp also noted that she was waiting for toxicology results before determining the nature of Ms Warren’s death, Highlighting that she believed the “facial injuries particularly bruising and abrasions around her mouth, had become more marked with time and suggested that Ms Warren had been held face down in the sand resulting in death by aspiration”.

However later on at a meeting in South Africa with Dr Klepp on my first trip in October 2018, I showed Dr Klepp the above email from DFAT and she said these were only “objective findings”. Interesting to note here Dr Klepp was only ever given the Melbourne Pathologist autopsy report and not the Mozambique autopsy report from the AFP or DFAT at this time as I had given the Mozambique autopsy report to Dr Klepp for the first time at my meeting with her in October 2018 two years after!!! Dr Klepp was very happy to “discover” that the Mozambique autopsy report concurred with her findings, especially with the “packed sand in the airways”!! However Dr Klepp did say “Homicide is up to a judge to determine accounting for all circumstances involving the facts of how the death occurred”. The AFP and coroner’s court were very much aware of all these suspicious facts and circumstances surrounding the death of Elly with Dr Klepp in 2016 as I have the emails from me telling the AFP and DFAT!!! Dr Klepp conducted the second autopsy in South Africa and should have most definitely been “Interviewed for a statement ” by the AFP for the Victorian state coroner in 2016. This was vital under the circumstances and should have been simple procedure by the AFP to have acquired a statement due to the Inconsistencies between the Melbourne pathologist cause of death as “undetermined” and the comprehensive conclusive cause of death from both the Mozambique & South African as “abundant sand packing Elly’s airways Chockablock”!!! These findings were supported as factual evidence given by Dr Klepp at the inquest in 2023!

Dr Klepp was willing to talk about her findings in 2016 as she had placed her phone

number at the bottom of her autopsy report with a convenient time frame to contact

her in south africa inviting anyone to talk about her autopsy report/findings!!!

DFAT received an official Mozambique police report on the 6th April 2017. This police report stated Elly died from a drug overdose!!! DFAT directly informed the Mozambique police who sent this initial report, of their own autopsy report which had stated in its conclusion that it was a “violent death of Homicide” and four days later a revised police report was sent out to DFAT who passed it on to the AFP, Coroner and family on the 10th April stating it is now a homicide!!

I was “furious” with these “two police reports” contacting the high commissioner directly at the Australian embassy in Pretoria, prompting a visit from the Australian high commissioner to meet with the Mozambique officials in Maputo, May 2017 to please explain these circumstances of the two police reports!! What had outraged me even more at this time was the fact the AFP had obviously completely “misinformed” the family all this time that the Mozambique police were doing a proper investigation at this early stage!! It was at this point in time after these two police reports that I knew I could not trust our own Australian authorities taking my daughter’s investigation into my own hands trusting no one in April 2017!!!!!

There was “comprehensive toxicology screening” completed by both Australia and South Africa all returning a “Negative result”.

The second official “revised Mozambique police report from SERNIC” which was given to the AFP by DFAT on the 10th April 2017, was confirmed as its all mentioned in the AFP Action Sheet!! This police report states they are now treating Ms Warren’s death for the first time as a “Homicide”. However no mention of a “ripped apart top” in this “official revised Mozambique police report”!! This is when it was confirmed to the AFP in April 2017 that Elly’s death was being treated as a “crime/homicide” by the top Mozambique crime police authorities SERNIC!! There was also another SERNIC Police report with more “detail” on the case given to the AFP, DFAT, Coroner and family on the 20th August 2020 and this had also stated that Ms Warren is a victim of Homicide!!

However, even this detailed SERNIC police report in 2020 has also not mentioned “the ripped apart top” or the “Clear crime scene photograph” taken by the local fisherman!!! The clear version of the crime scene photo was given to the Mozambique chief inspector on the 8th December 2016 by the AFP/SLO in South Africa!! The family was not aware of this clear version of the crime scene photograph until my first trip to Mozambique in October 2018 when it was given to me by a local fisherman. “No” Australian authorities had told the family that this clear version of the crime scene photo had “ever existed”!!!! DFAT and the AFP had the clear crime scene photo all along in 2016 and this “critical evidence” was never given to the family or the coroner BY the AFP in 2016/18!!!

Classification from the Investigating authorities in a foreign country of Homicide/Crime is the AFP’s “requirement” to send the Official Mutual Assistance Request (MAR) to officially offer our direct assistance/support which clearly “Homicide” is stated in these two “official” police reports from SERNIC in 2017 & 2020, Mozambique’s top criminal authority!!! However the AFP has not sent this Attorney General to Attorney General official MAR request to this day!!! In a letter to the coroner in June 2023 the Mozambique Deputy Attorney General has directly stated that the only “official process they will accept is the official MAR” confirming how much the Mozambican government “respect this official process between our two countries”!!!

It must also be “noted” in the AFP submissions submitted to the then coroner Mr Bracken at a hearing in February 2021 at No 40 that a Mozambique government has officially stated;-

“it was always possible for a joint operation with the AFP”.

However the Australian authorities had never bothered to send the “official” MAR to the Mozambique Attorney General after a “crime” was confirmed by their top criminal authority SERNIC, with their two official Mozambique police reports for the Mozambique Government to consider our official offer of assistance from our Australian Attorney General and authorities. With the above AFP submissions it could have been a possibility that they would have agreed if given the official MAR at this critical time with our offer to help with our daughter’s murder investigation in their country.

The coroner Mr Cain in speculating at the inquest on the 11th December 2023 at my oral submissions had ruled out the fact, that the MAR if sent in 2016/17 to offer our assistance, would have most likely been rejected and would not have made any difference as the AFP had informed Mr Cain on face value that they have sent numerous request for information and to offer our assistance with no response. Any verbal request is completely unacceptable given the “serious nature” of the circumstances and the family has never seen any further unofficial request in writing to the Mozambique Government or their authorities from the AFP to offer their assistance with our daughter’s case!!! However the family found out later that only a personal letter had been sent not the official MAR in 2021, to the Mozambique authorities because Mr Bracken “had instructed” the AFP to send an official request because of the AFP submissions above. Even then this letter was not the official way or process which the Mozambique government has “told our authorities and Mr Cain,” that they will only except, as they have informed Mr Cain in this letter dated the 19th June 2023 just before the inquest that the Mozambique government will only ever accept and respect the “official process of the MAR” between our two countries!!!! The AFP and Australian government have just never bothered to send the “Official MAR” to support an Australian family in these “diabolical circumstances of a loved one murdered overseas”!!!!!

What is even more “disturbing to the family” is the AFP’s attempts to “camouflage” these police reports clearly stating homicide in their Submissions and my oral submissions to the coroner at the inquest in 2023. Their motive was these police reports from SERNIC clarify it as a “crime”, therefore this is the requirement to send the MAR to offer our “Official” assistance with the crime of an Australian in a foreign country. These “facts” are in the official court transcript, oral submissions Blog and at the bottom of this summary. The AFP do not want to become involved with any overseas authorities concerning the suspicious death of an Australian especially with a third world country and will try every trick in the book not to become involved!!! The AFP is fully aware any request less than the official MAR will most certainly be rejected by that country’s authorities!! All the AFP’s excuses not to send the MAR to offer our assistance I have heard and none are credible!!! The AFP’s main excuse was that it was never classified as a “crime” by the Mozambique authorities until May 2023 in evidence given at the inquest but the solid facts here prove this is false evidence and totally incorrect misleading the coroner’s court!!!!!

The AFP claim at my oral submissions obviously confusing the coroner at the time as its in transcript that one of these police reports is an autopsy report on page 13 of their Action Sheet “when in actual fact” this was a “revised” Mozambique police report and from their “top Criminal Authority SERNIC” with a “casefile No 775/2016,” “Homicide of an Australian citizen Elly Rose Warren”. This was sent to the AFP by DFAT on the 10th April 2017!!!!! However there is also a second more detailed SERNIC police report with the same case file Number 775/2016 on the 20th August 2020 with more detailed evidence supporting the first police report in 2017 that Ms Warren was a victim of Homicide to the AFP!!!

What is also very disturbing for Elly’s family is the fact that the Coroner Mr Cain was fully aware of the detailed SERNIC police reports given to the AFP, DFAT, Coroner and the family stating Homicide. Mr Cain had mentioned “some” of the details from these Mozambique police reports in his findings at No / 124-129. This factual evidence becomes critical at my oral submissions with Mr Cain on the 11th December 2023 regarding the AFP and MAR!!! Both Mozambique official police reports from SERNIC, from 2017 and 2020, clearly state Homicide are in the coronial brief!!!

These are Mr Cains findings at No 183- 184

183 From a review of the evidence, it is clear that the AFP made numerous requests to the Mozambique authorities for information regarding the status of the investigation into Elly’s death and offered on a number of occasions to assist the Mozambique authorities in their investigation. However, it is also clear that none of the requests for information or offers for assistance were accepted by the Mozambique authorities

Note; This above statement No 183 in Mr Cain’s findings is totally incorrect. The facts to prove this are below.

184. Mr Warren submitted that had an MAR been submitted to the Mozambique authorities that it is more likely that offers of assistance and requests for information would have been accepted. However, in my opinion, there is no evidence to support this conclusion.

These solid facts below are a contradiction of Mr Cain’s findings at 183-184 above.

As the AFP’s Commander Smith evidence given and the AFP commissioner’s submissions at the inquest have clearly stated below;-

“No Mozambique Authority has ever stated it was a crime before May 2023”.

This is clearly false evidence given and without question misleading the court as I completely have the burden of proof facts!! AFP Commander Smith also states there was no cooperation from the Mozambique authorities whatsoever yet we find here for a fact on transcript page 101 not mentioned in the coroner’s findings, that Nicole and David Elly’s mother and step father have stated in evidence given at the inquest that the Mozambique authorities were asking the AFP for information and more evidence which the AFP has been involved in and has facilitated!! Autopsy report, bank statements etc. This is a complete contradiction here as commander Smith then had no choice but to agree to this on face value at the inquest!! This proves the AFP again here were not stating the truth at the inquest and misleading the court as the Mozambique authorities were happy to and were receptive in asking for support and more evidence from the AFP. This then becomes critical with why the AFP did not send the MAR as clearly the Mozambique authorities were being transparent with the AFP by asking for more evidence and the giving of evidence. These facts prove it is a complete contradiction of Mr Cain's findings. Why has Mr Cain not mentioned this evidence of cooperation from the Mozambique authorities given in his findings as it is so important under the circumstances!!!!

Below is the response by the Mozambique Authorities and their governments ministry

of foreign affairs to our authorities request for information this is further factual

proof of Cooperation and information received by our Authorities from our request!!!

‘The Mozambique authorities and Mozambique Ministry of Foreign Affairs below have sent a detailed SERNIC police report on the “20th August 2020” responding to our request and has forwarded this official SERNIC police report to the AFP and DFAT!!

‘The Mozambique authorities in “response” to our request for information on the death of the Australian citizen named Elly Rose Warren are “honoured” to request your Excellence leads, to the high commission of Australia in Pretoria from the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) responding to the request for information regarding the investigation about the death of the Australian citizen named Elly Rose Warren’.

This is classified above as cooperation with this official as you can get SERNIC police report from their top Mozambique criminal agency as this police report clearly states Elly Rose Warren was a victim of HOMICIDE AGAIN with a case file No 775/2016, dated the 20th August 2020 and well before May 2023!!! This is also mentioned in Mr Cain’s findings below No 129 as HOMICIDE. However it is conveniently not DATED by Mr Cain as the date of these SERNIC police reports 2017 & 2020 exposes the AFP “deception” at the inquest!!!! It’s all centered around the fact it’s not classified a “CRIME” by the AFP to send the mutual assistance request to fully offer our help until the other countries authorities officially state that it’s a Homicide/Murder. However the top Mozambique Criminal Division SERNIC had stated it was officially a homicide with two official police reports in 2017 & 2020 before May 2023!!! This is very IMPORTANT and exposes the AFP for Misleading the coroner’s court also in their official submissions sent to the coroner by the AFP commissioner in 2023.

This is why the date, left out here below in Mr Cains findings was so “important “ as this Official SERNIC police report classified Elly’s death as a homicide well before May 2023 exposing the deception of the AFP at the inquest not to send the Mutual assistance request to carrying out their “Sworn Duty” to support an Australian family with a suspicious death of a loved one from overseas!!! The relevant findings from Mr Cain below with the police report stating HOMICIDE well before May 2023;-

125. The evidence suggests that the CIP observed Elly to be lying down on her stomach with her upper limbs folded in a “V” shape below her face. Her lower limbs were said to be stretched out and half open, with her underwear down to her knees, she was wearing a black blouse and her nostrils and mouth on the ground facing the southeast.89

129. The SERNIC report provides a short summary of the information obtained through the investigation of Elly’s known movements prior to her death as well as a summary of the autopsy report from the Forensic Medicine in Maputo. The SERNIC report concludes that ‘the case is a homicide and is currently in the judicial inquiry stage’.

the relevant findings from mr Cain surrounding the official SERNIC police reports are

found at No 124-129. Without Dates!!!! however it must be noted that all official

Mozambique police reports “clearly state” in the very “first paragraph” of their

official reports that Elly Rose Warren is a victim of homicide case file No 775/2016!!!

These Official SERNIC police reports are all entered in the coronial evidence Brief!

Also when the AFP/SLO and DFAT went over to Tofo Mozambique on the 17th and 18th November 2016 the Mozambique authorities were very helpful. They had a meeting with the chief inspector at his office in Inhambane asking the chief Inspector for permission to attend the crime scene taking detailed NOTES from three organised meetings and from the crime scene Doctor, health minister and Mozambique prosecutor and Chief inspector in charge of the case with the approval of taking trace evidence, (SAND SAMPLE) and PHOTOS of the crime scene. The chief inspector had granted the AFP permission with no objection at all. The AFP asked for Elly’s clothes and belongings and the chief Inspector said on your way back from Tofo you can call in and pick up her clothes and belongings. These clothes did not include the vital trace evidence clothes that Elly was wearing at the time of her death as these were still at Maputo central hospital waiting for either family or our authorities to retrieve. The AFP or DFAT had every opportunity to obtain these clothes as they needed to change flights in Maputo for Jo-Burg but they did not bother to go to the hospital where Elly had her autopsy three days earlier to retrieve this VITAL TRACE EVIDENCE!!!!! These above facts are all mentioned in the AFP action sheet as solid proof of transparency and cooperation in the early stages of Elly’s murder in 2016 by the Mozambique SERNIC police. However in evidence given at the inquest the AFP/SLO Superintendent directly involved clearly states the Chief inspector was unhelpful!!!

The Mozambique authorities had “organised” these meetings with help by DFAT in Tofo/Inhambane with the health minister and the crime scene doctor and Prosecutor with the AFP/SLO taking detailed notes. If this is not cooperation and they are willing to give vital information to our authorities above I don’t know what is!!!!! Imagine if the AFP had sent the Mutual Assistance Request (MAR) in 2016/17 what difference and opportunities this could have made early on with the murder of our daughter’s investigation!!!! The big advantage here is our expert advancements in forensic technology to analyse trace evidence to support a third world country which requires the official mutual assistance request for a joint operation to be in place for transfer of any trace evidence to analyse between our two countries as the Mozambique Government has officially stated!!! I did try very hard to explain this to the Coroner Mr Cain at my oral submissions on the 11th December 2023!!! There were security provisions in place until their instruction phase was completed but this was “only referring” to the transfer or release of their casefile for the Coronial proceedings as stated in an official letter to Mr Cain. I did try and explain this to Mr Cain as it was always possible to have transparency and direct cooperation with the implementation of the Mutual assistance request in the early stages in 2016/17. However Mr Cain made it clear at the start of my oral submissions that he had already written his findings and basically made up his mind!!

The Australian Authorities have just never bothered to send the official Mutual assistance request in 2016/17 to directly offer our help and resources to a third world country!!!! That country then has to agree but there were good signs of factual cooperation in the early stages of the Investigation by the Mozambique authorities in 2016/17 therefore it may have been possible if the MAR was sent!!

Unfortunately the Australian Attorney General (AAG) and AFP are incorrect and have both Misinformed the coroners court that the Manual assistance request (MAR) is not a process which was known or possible between the Mozambique Authorities and Australian Authorities with evidence exchange even through the the MAR ACT 1987 states evidence exchange using the MAR process is at the convenience for all countries around the world!!! The Mozambique Deputy Attorney General (MDAG) has informed the AFP & coroner’s court by an official letter in June 2023 that the only official process they will “respect and approve” of is the official MAR between our two countries for their casefile once their securities and investigation phase is complete. Therefore the AAG is not aware of the full MAR process or requirements and that the Mozambique SERNIC police reports had clearly stated its a crime of homicide in 2017 & 2020 in the initial stages of the Murder investigation into Ms Warren’s death when he had informed the court and AFP. The MAR was implemented for the convenience of all countries around the world to improve the efficiency of transparency and collaboration with information and serious issues of concern between them. In this case the initial proven Homicide of an Australian citizen in a foreign country!!!!

Below is from the coroner’s findings Mr Cain No 153 confirmation form Mozambique MDAG. Also very importantly, 174-175 from the Australian Attorney general!!

No 153 • The Mozambique Deputy Attorney-General advised that the only way that the Coronial Inquiry in Australia could officially acquire the file would be through a Mutual Assistance Request once the instruction phase is completed and the secrecy provisions are relaxed;

174. In this regard, the advice from the AGD to the AFP was that the MAR process was not available to the AFP with respect to obtaining material from the Mozambique authorities in support of Elly’s investigation.

175. In addition, Part 5.4 of Division 115 of the Schedule to the Criminal Code provides for offences relating to harming Australian residents or citizens outside of Australia. In a letter to the Court from Assistant Commissioner Giles, he confirmed that the AGD advised the AFP that these provisions are unlikely to be relevant in Elly’s matter123 as the AFP are not in possession of the Mozambique investigation file and as such, do not have sufficient material which discloses an offence under Division 115.124

However it was clearly classified as an Offence by the two Official SERNIC police reports in 2017 & 2020 this has to be sufficient material with these two official police reports supporting each other from their TOP Criminal agency SERNIC that an OFFENCE of an Australian citizen has clearly accrued!!! Both these Mozambique official SERNIC police reports are also supported by their autopsy report which concludes Ms Warren death as a Violet death, Homicide!!!

However the AFP had obviously not informed the Australian Att0rney general about

these two official Mozambique SERNIC police reports and Autopsy report which all

clearly state Ms Warren is a victim of Homicide!!!

You also need to send the MAR First to retrieve the casefile as the MDAG states above in No 153. The MDAG is actually informing our Australian authorities and Coroner’s court of the process they will only RESPECT and it’s from a third world country this is Just unbelievable confirmation here from Mr Cains findings above!!!!!!

The Mozambique investigation was closed on the 19th June 2024 by the Mozambique judge in charge of the Judicial process closing off the Instruction phase due to insufficient evidence with the perpetrators. I am factually aware that the top Mozambique criminal Police SERNIC, strongly suspect certain individuals in Tofo with their recent investigations.

To this very day 20th October 2025 we have still not sent the MAR for their Casefile!!!! However we don’t need their casefile to prove Elly’s death was an offence/CRIME as we have always had the two official Mozambique police reports 2017 & 2020 clearly stating Ms Warren is a victim of HOMICIDE and then again in May 2023 with the MDAG and Mozambique police as they both state and confirmed again in person at a meeting in Maputo with an AFP commander that Ms Warren Death is a Homicide. You can’t get it any clearer than that to the Australian coroner’s court, Australian authorities and Australian Attorney General!!!!!

This is nowhere near good enough by Mr Cain, AFP, DFAT and the Australian Attorney

general. these solid burden of proof facts prove the coroner mr cain clearly

had the wool pulled over his eyes at the inquest in 2023 by the AFP!!! However the

coroner would have become aware of the deceptions when writing his findings as he

has left the dates out for all the official Mozambique SERNIC police reports which

exposes the AFP.

Mutual Assistance Request ACT 1987, (MAR) officially implemented for all countries around the world to open up communication channels to offer assistance in any way possible with serious issues involving the countries concerned!

By Clicking on the Link below you will see just how much of a powerful tool the Mutual assistance request is for all countries to use around the world and it covers all aspects of transparency and cooperation.

https://www.ag.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-03/Mutual-assistance-overview.pdf

Private investigation in 2018

In October 2018, I traveled to Mozambique with a team from 60 Minutes Australia. Upon arriving in Tofo I was able to trace my daughter’s last foot steps leaving notice with several locals requesting information about my daughter's death. This resulted in a quick response and within 24 hours I was shown a clear photo taken by a local fisherman who found Elly’s body at 5am. This was the first time the family or coroner Mr Bracken at this time had seen this clear version two years after Elly’s murder!!! The coroner at the time Mr Bracken was also only made aware of the “clear photo” two years after Elly’s death because I forwarded it to the coroner’s court by email from Mozambique straight after I was given this clear version of of the photograph clearly showing Elly’s body laying flat with her top ripped apart.!!!

In this clear photo Elly is laying flat on a firm sandy pathway next to a toilet block with her “top completely ripped apart and underwear around her knees”. Two witnesses at 6.30am said they saw her body later at the crime scene as they said they may be able to identify who it was. They said her body was in a “Muslim prayer position” at this time!! Because of this solid information I was confident that Elly’s body position was changed by the two local Mozambique police officers who were first at the crime scene early that morning in an attempt to cover up the fact Elly had been murdered to make it look more like an accident had occurred, as the clear photo I was given by the local fisherman showed Elly’s body laying flat on the ground at 5am that same morning!! The family has solid factual evidence which proves this without question!!

Nicole, Elly’s mother and step father David acquired the services of a private investigator who was on the ground in Tofo early 2019 just after my visit to Tofo. Their investigator did not really unearth any more information from what I did in October 2018, except for one very important witness who was one of the first to attend the crime scene very early that morning at 5.30am. He was a prodigious business owner in Tofo well respected for holding some weight in the community. I had tracked down this business owner in Tofo when I was there asking to speak with him, which he agreed to and one of the very important comments he made was, “ He took control at the time and told the police to rope off the area and let no one in”. However when Nicole and David’s investigator had spoken to this same Business Owner three months later in January 2019 he had “Completely,” “changed his story”!!! The family has “solid facts” proving this to be the factual circumstances without question!!!

This becomes “critical” when looking at all the circumstantial evidence involving the cover-up early that morning at the crime scene 5.30-6.30am. This is due to the solid circumstantial evidence which indicates it was “highly probable” the ripped apart T-Shirt had been “switched over” early that morning at the crime scene adding to the factual reason why it has not been reported as ripped apart by anyone, doctor or police at the crime scene or even submitted as “critical trace evidence placed into evidence to be forensically analysed for DNA.!!!!

However the Mozambique police do not have the technology for extracting DNA from clothing, this is one area the Mutual Assistance Request would have “Played a Critical Key Role” in as the AFP has one of the “state of the art Forensic Laboratories in the World”!!! If not to test the top, especially with Elly’s underwear and other clothes she was wearing at the time of her death!! Elly’s clothes were eventually incinerated at the Maputo Central Hospital some time after as no one came to retrieve these clothes!!! The Mozambique police did not place her clothes into evidence because they can’t do anything with this critical evidence!!! The director of the hospital told the family they hang on to the clothes for some time for the family to pick up, but if no one comes after time they are then destroyed!!!! This then, later on became “Critical” as the Mozambique police had suspects but not enough evidence to charge anyone!!!!

I returned to Tofo for a second time to post a reward in October 2019. However the locals are very much intimidated by the local police and were “especially afraid to talk about Elly’s murder”!! I was already aware of this before I went to Tofo for the second time but as there had been no solid leads on the case this left me no choice but to return and post a reward in the hope it may generate some new information and leads after three years.

Elly’s mother launched a petition on Change.org asking Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the time for help in the investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death. The petition read in part: “We ask Scott Morrison as Prime Minister of Australia to intervene in this case to put pressure on the Mozambique government to allow Australia to provide an investigation team to work with the Mozambique police to solve Elly’s murder and give her some justice.” After two weeks, the petition grew to more than thirty-six thousand signatures. However this turned out to be a complete waste of time and effort!!

Mr Bill Shorten, the then Federal Leader of the Opposition, called for diplomatic action in support of the family from the Australian government related to Ms Warren's death.

Further Cover-ups

My investigations over the years that followed revealed far more “reaching cover-ups and deception”!!!

I reiterate that an official Mozambique SERNIC police report was given to the AFP, DFAT, Coroner and family on the 20th August 2020 and this “comprehensive report” has “still” not mentioned the “critical fact” that the T-shirt Elly was wearing at the time of her death was” ripped apart totally destroyed” in this updated official Mozambique police report four years after out daughter’s murder from “SERNIC” Mozambique’s top criminal authority”!!! This report was “comprehensive” and detailed with some of the circumstances of evidence concerning the case, but no mention of a ripped apart top or clear crime scene photograph taken by a fisherman!!!!

However the photo taken by the local Fisherman who found Elly’s body at 5am “tells the truth” and clearly shows the top is “completely destroyed and ripped apart” from Elly’s right shoulder and all the way down her right side!! This ripped apart top “exposes the Mozambique police cover-up” at the crime scene early that morning before the doctor and Investigating team turned up at the crime scene that same morning at around 9am from their headquarters in nearby Inhambane!!

There has been “no ripped apart top mentioned” from either the crime scene doctor, chief inspector, Mozambique investigating team or “reports from meetings” with the AFP who were on the ground in Tofo on the 18th November 2016, taking detailed notes from the doctor who attended the crime scene at 9am. The same doctor then examined Elly’s body later that afternoon at the Inhambane hospital removing all of Elly’s clothes and “money from her bra” as reported to the AFP and also in their official AFP Action Sheet!!!!! “ There is No mention here whatsoever from this examining doctor at the crime scene about a “ripped apart top” not even in the AFP Action Sheet with the detailed notes taken by the AFP Superintendent /Senior Liaison Officer (SLO) at this meeting on the 18th November 2016!!! In Fact “NO AFP, DFAT, Mozambique police or doctor in their reports have ever mentioned the top as ripped apart to this day”!!!!

This is “solid” circumstantial evidence, therefore either way you “look” at it, it

is a cover-up!!!! The ripped top was “never reported at the crime scene by anyone” or the

“ripped apart top was not on Elly’s body” that morning when the doctor and

Mozambique crime investigating team turned up at the crime scene at around 9am!!!!!!

However the AFP were clearly “fully aware” that the ripped apart top had then “exposed the Mozambique police cover up” at the crime scene in 2016. This “clear version” of the crime scene photograph was given to AFP in November 2016 by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) only “ONE” week after Elly’s murder By DFAT’s “Honorary consul” confirmed in Mr Cain’s findings at No 145 and on page 21 of the AFP action sheet:-

DFAT advised the AFP that the fisherman had sent a clear version to Mr Gray, (Honorary consul) who then subsequently forwarded it to the High Commission in Pretoria.

Proving without question DFAT’s Honorary consul had given “false testimony”

at the inquest!!!!

I have “solid facts” proving this without question on Transcript pages 125 & 128. I do have a report (Blog) on this factual evidence. These latest facts and supporting evidence of the deception of the Honorary Consul and the AFP are below in a blog dated the 17th September 2025.

This then becomes a crucial time at the inquest which turns the inquest for Elly’s

family on its head!!!

The other “very disturbing factor” here is there was “No report” to the coroner in 2016 on this critical crime scene photograph from the AFP who are totally “responsible” for this crime evidence as the governing police body for overseas matters!!!! Therefore why no action taken by the Australian authorities and Government, is it then possible this was “elevated” to a “diplomatic issue” which required some “sweeping under the carpet”!!!!! The family also has the “solid facts here” and some of these facts are in the blogs below with supporting evidence. (My report on the deception of the Honorary Consul & AFP) (My report on the coroner’s findings).

An official letter was also sent to the coroner Mr Cain just before the inquest on the 19th June 2023, where for the very “first time” the AFP had “officially acknowledged” receiving the “clear version” of the crime scene photograph in November 2016 after “seven years” clearly showing the ripped apart top and all the critical evidence at the crime scene at 5am taken by the local fisherman at Tofo beach toilet block on the 9th November 2016!!!

With No action by the AFP, Australian government and the coroner’s court after 6 years the family had no option but to protest (Photo above) on the steps of the Australian Parliament in Melbourne at the end of 2022. This protest finally had some effect as a hearing was soon scheduled by the coroner soon after on the 20th February 2023.

The AFP were directly asked by the coroner Mr Cain at this hearing in February 2023 to “move heaven and earth” for the family to find some answers. This “Finally Prompted” the AFP to send a commander over to speak with the Mozambique officials in May 2023 after 7 years!! The AFP were informed by the Mozambique deputy Attorney General that they are still treating Ms Warren’s death as a homicide and that they have suspects but not enough evidence to charge anyone!! An inquest followed in August that year which produced strong “quality-compelling evidence” to the fact Elly was murdered. However the coroner for some reason was reluctant to clarify Elly’s death as a murder just saying it’s a possibility!!!! However the gaps in evidence before the inquest mentioned by the coroner at the hearing in February 2023 were proven due to the compelling evidence given by witnesses at the inquest for the coroner to “change” the Melbourne pathologist conclusion of death as Undetermined to the obstruction of an abundance of sand packing Elly’s airways chockablock. Therefore it is not physically possible for Elly to inhale sand on her own to this degree, packing her airways chockablock from just falling over in the sand on her own!!!! Further compelling evidence also given by the witnesses at the inquest made this impossible for Elly to pack her airways to such degree due to the fact of where Elly’s body was found laying completely flat with her head in a straight normal position with her face and chin clearly resting on top of a very “firm sandy” walking path around the toilet block as this is supported by the clear version of the crime scene photograph and with evidence given by Dr Klepp at the inquest!!!!

Other critical evidence here which supports that it was impossible for Elly’s to have packed her airways and lungs in such a manner where her body was found and supported by the Mozambique detailed police report on the 20 August 2020 which is evidence entered in the colonial brief and also mentioned in Mr Cain’s findings at No 125:-

‘The body was found lying down in a prone position, with the superior members folded

in “V” shape against the face with her face and nose on the soil’,

This official police report also stats :_- That the place of crime is “UNKOWNEN”. Also proving without question Elly’s body was moved after her death to the Toilet block location. They don’t know where it happened! But they know with absolute confidence it did not happen where Elly’s body was found at the toilet block!

This statement of the facts clearly has Elly’s head on top of the sand with her face and nose on top of the soil. Elly’s body is laying flat with her arms in a V shape with her arms against her face all proving her head is clearing above the surface on a firm sandy pathway.

That supports this evidence is the “Clear “crime scene photo which I had also given to the Chief inspector Cudzi at a meeting I had with him at the PIC headquarters in October 2018.  This prompted this new detailed report from the Mozambique authorities on the 20th August 2020 as he states to me all recorded that he will need to go back to the crime scene again hence the new detailed police report by the Mozambique Authorities. This is because the Chief inspector was so impressed with all the evidence I had obtained in such a short time he asked me to document the factual evidence in a statement which I signed and to have this evidence officially authorized, Signed and stamped at the Mozambique notary in Inhambane.

What was Clarified in this officially signed statement is the Pic Commander Chief inspector Cudzi confirms and states below;-

That on the 16th of October Pic commander Cudzi informed me, “that the sand samples

taken and analysed revealed that the sand in Elly’s internal airways was not the same

as The toilet block area”, “the attack did not take place there”. This proves that the

body was moved “post Morten”

My lawyer sent Mr Cain a letter before my oral submissions informing Mr Cain of the Chief Inspector ‘s comments stated and this was also spoken about at my oral submissions that the Chief Inspector states the sand in Elly’s month was not the same sand found at the toilet block where the body was found!!!!

Also Dr Klepp had stated in evidence given at the inquest that it was not possible for Elly’ to pack her airways chockablock laying in this position on the firm hard surface shown in the clear photograph. The family sort advice from another Pathologist Dr Byron Collins and he “totally agreed” with Dr Klepp’s evidence given, after being informed of her evidence given also with the chockablock sand in the airways and lungs and then viewing the clear crime scene photo of the position and surface that Elly’s body was laying flat in when her body was initially found first by the fisherman.

However Mr Cain in his findings conclusion states;-

“On the available evidence I am unable to determine if Elly aspirated sand at the

location where the body was found or at another location and moved Post-Mortem”!!!!

The vital Trace Evidence

The AFP sent a letter on the 24th October 2024 informing the family that the Mozambique judge responsible for the criminal investigation has ordered the judicial process regarding Ms Warren homicide be closed as there was “insufficient evidence” to proceed with the matter to charge any perpetrators!!!

I have however been recently informed late 2025 that the top Mozambique criminal

police SERNIC are aware of these perpetrators who Murdered Elly as a incident

happened in Tofo where the SERNIC police were staying. I was also informed it is now

common knowledge in Tofo who these perpetrators are!!! How critical then was the

key trace evidence here, Elly’s “clothes” she was wearing at the time of her death and

the missing material evidence the “ladies sanitary item”!!!

Would it have made a difference for justice if the AFP had of retrieved this critical trace evidence, Elly’s clothes she was wearing at the time of her death which should have been given “top priority” by the AFP as they were “on the ground in Tofo and Maputo only 9 days after Elly’s murder.” No one came to pick up this “vital trace evidence” from the Maputo central hospital. Elly’s clothes were there ready to be picked up by our authorities before they were eventually destroyed later on as the director of the hospital where Elly had her autopsy has stated to the family they keep the clothes for some time for the family or in this case the countries authorities to pick up at the Maputo central hospital. The Hospital was fully aware this was a suspicious death of a foreigner as their autopsy concluded homicide, therefore they were aware of how important these clothes were at the time! The Mozambique police obviously had no interest in the clothes Elly was wearing at the time of her death as the Mozambique inspector who accompanied Elly’s body to the Maputo hospital had left them at the hospital! consequently they were not placed into evidence as they can’t test for DNA from clothing. However they were “not aware” of their own Tofo police cover-up at this time with the ripped T-shirt!!!

I reiterate the AFP or DFAT had every opportunity to obtain these vital clothes Elly was wearing at the time of her death as they needed to change flights from and to Jo-Burg twice in Maputo on the way over and on their return From Inhambane/Tofo but they did not “bother” to go to the central hospital in Maputo where Elly had her autopsy three days earlier to retrieve this VITAL TRACE EVIDENCE!!!!! Even after the chief Mozambique inspector was so obliging in Inhambane/TOFO handing over Elly’s other clothes, suitcase and backpack as stated in evidence at the inquest by DFAT’s Senior Liaison Officer. DFAT/SLO has also given false evidence at the inquest as she clearly states they “flew direct to Inhambane from Jo-Burg” in her evidence given at the inquest in 2023 but this is impossible because there are No direct flights to Jo-Burg and return flights as you need to change flights in Maputo for Inhambane where a twin propeller plane is used for that leg of the flight to Inhambane!!!!

Elly’s family will not know if it would have made a difference as this critical trace evidence was never analysed for any DNA!!! such a big opportunity missed here for DNA trace evidence as a drop of sweat, skin cells from a hand grip ripping the top, other body fluids and hair etc. I realise the AFP are not Homicide detectives but surely the AFP were aware of just how important the clothes Elly was wearing at the time of her death were for forensic DNA testing Top, underwear and bra Etc!!! The other angle here is did the AFP want to retrieve these clothes as it would have exposed the cover-up of the Mozambique police without question!!!

The other critical trace evidence of the ladies sanitary item, well I really don’t know what to say here it has never been found!!!! All this vital trace evidence has never even been mentioned in the official AFP action sheet or any official police reports from either country, it’s like it never existed!!! Elly’s other clothes in her suitcase and backpack were mentioned in the AFP action sheet and other trace evidence but not the clothes “Elly was wearing at the time of her death”!!! The material trace evidence lost at the VIFM is also not mentioned in any police reports. It was only mentioned by the Melbourne pathologist in an extra supplementary report because I asked the then coroner Mr Bracken for a full investigation on the lost ladies sanitary item after talking with Mr Bracken’s assistant. I sent a letter to Mr Bracken on the 10th September 2019 (Click on date to read report). The Melbourne Pathologist states in his supplementary report;- “it’s possible I have miss it”. The Melbourne pathologist also states in his evidence given at the inquest that “Someone can be sexually assaulted and show no signs” elevating the seriousness for the fact the ladies sanitary should have been forensically tested for DNA. It must be noted Dr Klepp in her evidence given also at the inquest in August 2023 states; '“she had removed the the tampon and placed it in a plastic bag with the organs placing the plastic bag inside the body for repatriation to Australia”.

I have sent a report to the commissioner of the AFP on the 27th May 2024 detailing their discrepancies with the case with no reply to date, only acknowledgement that the AFP commissioner had received my report. I had sent letters/emails to the Australian government for an inquiry/Investigation into the handling of my daughter’s investigation by the Australian authorities and “five times” they have referred the matter back to the AFP!!! The commonwealth ombudsman has all the factual evidence with all the supporting facts however they also keep stalling!!!

“An Inquiry is necessary to prevent these unjust circumstances from happening

to other Australian families in the future”.

Elly was a “proud Australian” and the facts prove her country and authorities had

abandoned her!!!

Note;- If on a Mobile phone click top right, three lines to open up all headings, Blogs at the top of the page.

All the blogs are the facts and I have all the supporting facts which would hold up in a court of law.

The resent two blogs, updated and added are especially interesting facts with all the factual supporting evidence attached :-

Click on the dates to open links to blogs below.

17 September 2025 : -

The Facts behind the scenes around the Cover-Up Deception of the Australian Federal Police, DFAT’s Honorary Consul and Mozambique Police in “November 2016”. A New factual report added in search for the truth June 2025. This report uncovers the Mozambique cover-up only a few days after Elly’s death and the attempt of the Australia Authorities to keep the Mozambique police cover-up quit. The supporting evidence is attached to the report to support these facts!!!

22 August 2025:-

Elly Warren's Fathers Report on the Coroner's Findings;-

This report on the coroner’s findings is mostly in systematic order. These are the relevant points of reference from the Coroner’s findings in more detail and charily ensuring all the relevant facts are mentioned which were overlooked or not explained fully in the coroner’s findings. This report exposes the deception of the AFP and questions Mr Cain’s findings!!!!

5 January 2024;-

My oral submissions with coroner Mr Cain;-

Also My oral submissions were made directly to the coroner Mr Cain on the 11th December 2023. This blog further supports the strong relevant compelling facts, with Elly’s father’s further attempts to clarify the circumstances of his daughter’s murder to the coroner Mr Cain.

Photos of Tofo Mozambique