Accused fitness entrepreneur Sam Wood and his wife Snezana Wood are set to list their jointly owned Brighton home, purchased for $7.15 million, as Wood remains in custody awaiting a court appearance on domestic violence charges.
A source close to the couple, not authorised to speak publicly, said an on-market sales campaign for the Hanby Street property would go live within 48 hours, possibly as soon as Wednesday. The couple committed to buying the almost 1300 square metre home in September and settled on the purchase in mid-January. They have owned it for about nine months, but have not lived there, instead residing in another Brighton property they do not own.
Wood, 46, was denied bail last week in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court over the alleged violent assault of his wife during a family holiday in Noosa on October 3. He was taken to the Brisbane Correctional Centre at Wacol and has since been transferred to the Wolston Correctional Centre, also at Wacol, which houses high-profile detainees and people on remand.
The fitness entrepreneur faces charges of assault occasioning bodily harm (domestic violence) and strangulation in a domestic setting. During the bail hearing, Acting Magistrate Janelle Boegheim said Snezana Wood told police she feared her husband would kill her during an argument about packing at the holiday unit on Hastings Street. Wood allegedly threw her into a wall twice, choked her and banged her head on the floor, prompting her daughter, Eve Markoski-Wood, to call Triple Zero.
The court heard Wood had aggressively approached Markoski-Wood and Snezana placed herself between the two. Boegheim said Wood recalled pushing his wife away but explicitly denied strangling or harming her in any way. His lawyer, Mathew Cuskelly, said outside court he would apply for bail in the Supreme Court, but no date has been set.