Friend told dead man buried in backyard, court hears A WOMAN thought her friend, an accused killer, was joking when she told her she killed her partner and buried him in their backyard, a court has heard. "I actually said, "Well that would be a bloody stupid thing to do because that would be the first place they'd look," Joanne Mills told Melbourne Magistrates" Court. Angela Williams, 44, was charged with the murder of 48-year-old Douglas Kally - her partner of 23 years and father of her two children - in December last year after his body was found buried at their home in the beachfront town of Indented Heads. Ms Mills, a former friend of the couple, said Ms Williams began a relationship with David Grainger, Mr Kally's best friend, two weeks after her partner went missing in July 2008. She said she did not tell police about the incriminating comments because she did not believe they were true. "When (she and Mr Grainger) said it to me, she was looking at me, waiting to gauge my opinion, with a smirk on her face..." she said. I didn't believe that Ange was capable of something like that. "She said it a couple of times: "Yeah, I did it - as if." It was flippantly said as a joke. Police allege Ms Williams struck Mr Kally's head with a pick axe 16 times after they had an argument in their bedroom in July 2008. Ms Williams told police Mr Kally accused her of sleeping with Mr Grainger and said, "Go on, do it, do it, you f---ing fat slut," after she picked up the tool. She allegedly spent the night at Mr Grainger's and returned the next day, wrapping Mr Kally's body in tarpaulin and burying it in a shallow grave in the backyard. Ms Williams told family - including the couple's two teenage children - and friends he had left the family and moved to New South Wales, the court heard. She allegedly staged a phone call and mail from him. Mr Kally, a father of five who was also known as Dragon Dordevic, was reported missing by his family in October 2008. The court heard Mr Kally had previously been busted for growing and selling cannabis. Ms Williams" father, Ralph, said he was not aware of the extent of Mr Kally's physical abuse of his daughter until after he went missing. "What she did, she did to save her life," he told the court today. He said after a heart-to-heart last year, he encouraged Ms Williams to call the police, who let her take her daughter out to celebrate her 20th birthday before she went to the station and made admissions. Ms Mills - who dated Mr Grainger for six months - said after Mr Kally went missing, Ms Williams and her children told her "Doug used to beat her up and throw her around the house." They told me after Doug went missing - they'd never told me that before. The court heard Mr Kally spent his days fishing and drinking, had been "dobbed in" for cheating on his wife and "considered himself a ladies man." Ms Williams wiped tears from her eyes with her sleeve in the dock as Ms Mills told the court of the tension between the two couples this temporarily caused. Ms Mills said she had seen Mr Kally lose his temper when he was drinking. But she believed Ms Williams" claims he burnt her with cigarettes were exaggerated to invoke sympathy, she told the court. Ms Mills said she recalled an incident at a barbeque where Ms Williams angrily chased Mr Kally into their bedroom, where a bed was later broken with an axe. The committal hearing continues tomorrow.