Hannah Glover, 30, spent two weeks denying she killed Tara Morrison. Then, in the middle of her murder trial, she changed her mind. On Thursday, she pleaded guilty.
Glover and her co-accused, James Sorgiovanni, 29, were both charged with murdering Morrison, a 38-year-old mom from Western Australia. Police found her body in April 2024, stuffed inside a child’s cupboard at a home in Busselton, about 220 kilometers (roughly 137 miles) south of Perth. She had 40 stab wounds. Both pleaded not guilty at first.
The turn came a day after a prisoner who cannot be named testified. She told the court Glover confided in her. Glover said she used multiple knives, according to the inmate. She said Glover told her she saw Morrison give drugs to a child, and that she injected Morrison with a drug the inmate called fantasy. Then Glover told her co-accused, “It’s time,” the inmate said.
The inmate said Glover told her Sorgiovanni, “Jimmy,” held Morrison’s arms behind her back, and that’s when Glover stabbed her. She said Glover acted out the sound of blood squirting to show how much there was.
Glover’s lawyer, Anthony Eyres, had told the court something different in his opening remarks. He said she accepted she was in the home, but that Sorgiovanni killed Morrison. He said she denied stabbing her.
Sorgiovanni says that’s backwards. After his arrest, he blamed Glover and said he was asleep and heavily sedated by GHB. His lawyer, Lisa Boston, told the court he did not kill Morrison. She said he took a powerful anesthetic and passed out in a bedroom, then woke to shouting and saw a “horror show.” Glover was “a frenzied attacker with a knife,” Boston said. He has not changed his plea, and his trial continues.
State prosecutor Michael Cvetkoski told the court the pair had been together for less than two months when Morrison died. She was stabbed in the chest, neck, head, arm and hand, he said. The last person to see her alive said he dropped her at Glover’s home, and when he tried to leave after taking drugs with them, the doors were locked. A neighbor heard a woman screaming for about 30 minutes before it went silent.
The state says a bloody palm print on the front door was Morrison’s, made as she tried to escape. “It was two against one,” Cvetkoski told the court.
Police went to the home for a welfare check and saw blood on the door and walls. They found Morrison’s body, several bloody knives, CCTV ripped down and burnt hair soaked in blood. The state says gas and burners were turned on to burn the house down. Glover and Sorgiovanni had left. They were driven to Margaret River, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) away, and went their separate ways.
Glover’s case is back in court Nov. 5. Sorgiovanni remains on trial and is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
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