Inquest into Gold Coast woman Tina Greer’s death hears about call to daughter

Before her disappearance, Tina Louise Greer regularly told her daughter she couldn’t leave Lesley ‘Grumpy’ Sharman behind because he would kill her, a coroner has heard.

In January 2012, Ms Greer left her daughter, then 13, with a friend to visit Sharman at his estate in the Gold Coast hinterland.

The 32-year-old never returned.

Days later, her car was parked at the Governors Chair lookout in Spicers Gap – a cul-de-sac past Sharman’s house.

Mrs. Greer’s body was never found.

Ms Greer’s daughter, Lili Greer (above), claims her mother’s biker boyfriend, Lesley ‘Grumpy’ Sharman, was violent

Sharman was a person of interest in the case but was never arrested and was killed in a car accident in late 2018.

At the inquest into Ms Greer’s suspected death, daughter Lili said she witnessed Sharman being violent towards her mother during their six-year relationship.

She said her mother told her “often” that she could not leave Sharman because he would kill her.

‘I’d say… more than five times. It happened so many times that I knew I couldn’t pinpoint that one time exactly,” she said in the Brisbane Coroners Court on Wednesday.

She also referred to a phone call in which her mother “says hi and whispers as if she thinks she is going to die.”

There were other occasions when she claimed she heard Sharman threaten her mother.

“I remember him saying, ‘You’ll never be able to get a job,’ and stuff like that, like, ‘I’ll basically ruin your life,'” Lili Greer said.

She also remembered her mother telling her that Sharman had broken her nose.

On another occasion, her mother told her Sharman had hit her head with a bar stool, causing blood to flow on the floor, before forcing her to clean up the mess, the coroner heard.

Lili claims Lesley ‘Grumpy’ Sharman (above) threatened to kill her mother ‘more than five times’ before disappearing

The car Ms Greer (above) was driving on the night she disappeared was found near the Governors Chair lookout at Spicers Gap – a cul-de-sac past Sharman’s house

Lili Greer said she later found a CT scan referral for her mother that she believed was for the barstool attack.

She said she had witnessed many instances of harassment and controlling behavior by Sharman towards her mother.

Asked to give an example, she said: ‘We were in the car driving. I believe they disagreed and he was just trying to intimidate us by veering off the road.”

She described her mother as a fiery person who would defend herself.

However, Lili Greer said on one occasion that she stood up to Sharman.

She said she stood in the way when she claims Sharman grabbed her mother and tried to drag her into a bedroom.

He responded by saying “something along the lines of f*** off… I’ll smash your face,” Lili Greer said.

No evidence of Ms Greer has been found, despite police offering a $250,000 reward in 2020.

Police advised in 2015 that she was presumed dead.

Coroner Kerrie O’Callaghan will consider the police response to allegations of domestic abuse, their investigation into Ms Greer’s disappearance and investigations into the disappearance of missing women known to be victims of domestic violence.

Lili (pictured with her mother) claims she once stood up to Sharman and he told her: ‘f*** off, I’ll smash your face’

The Gold Coast-based Salvation Army Rehabilitation Center’s response to Ms Greer’s domestic abuse revelations will also be considered.

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