Supreme Court jury told Anthony Charles Oliver, 38, shot Norm Cheney and dumped body in river NORM Cheney's best mate stands accused of shooting him in the back of the head and slashing his throat before hiding his body in a concrete-filled 44-gallon drum and dumping it in the Caboolture River. A jury in the Supreme Court of Brisbane was told Anthony Charles Oliver, 38, started dating Norm's estranged wife shortly before he killed his 41-year-old friend at Esk, 100km northwest of Brisbane, between December 19, 2010 and February 5, 2011. Oliver has pleaded not guilty to murder before Justice Margaret Wilson. Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller QC said Burpengary man Simon Hay was with his two children exploring the banks of the Caboolture River at Rocksberg when they came across the metal drum containing Norm's remains on February 5. It had washed up on to the bank against in the floods of 2011. A man's jaw, skull and teeth were visible at one end of the barrel, a human foot at the other. The remains were identified through DNA testing. In his opening address, Mr Fuller told the jury Oliver murdered Norm and took his corpse, seated in the front passenger seat of a borrowed car, to his sister's property at Esk and parked it in a shed for two days. He said Oliver's sister Jenny and her husband Peter Harris helped him hide the body in concrete with heavy stones and later torched the car in bushland at Crows Nest. It came after Oliver allegedly tried to sell the blood-smeared car to a friend. Mr Fuller said Norm had separated from his wife Trichelle, 39, in September, 2010 after an ``on-again, off-again" relationship that bore a son. He said the couple's relationship was turbulent and at times violent as a result of drug addiction. Mr Fuller said Trichelle was having an affair with Oliver and by December, 2010, they were living together. He said a witness would testify Oliver told him he killed Norm because he was ``sick of having him around" and complained he owed him money. Contact with Norm and his brother's family, who he lived with at Sandgate, stopped on December 20, 2010 and a missing persons report was filed a week later. Barrister Michael Byrne QC, for Oliver, told the jury the accused killed Norm in circumstances where he was in fear of his own safety and defending his own life. He said Norm had a history of becoming violent in a very short period of time, outbursts that were exacerbated by his consumption of both prescription and illicit drugs. He said Norm had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was a heavy user of crystal meth or ``ice.