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Queensland police have charged a 48-year-old man with one count of domestic violence murder after human remains believed to be those of a missing Toowoomba woman were found in bushland.

According to The Guardian, Jana Armstrong was reported missing from a suburb of Toowoomba after she was last seen on Tuesday 7 July. Officers released footage showing her wearing a green-and-white striped Country Road shirt, jeans and thongs, and her white Hyundai was found about 500m from her home.

Detective Acting Inspector Brian Collins of the Darling Downs district said members of the public out hunting discovered possible human remains on Esk-Hampton Road at Redbank Creek at about 10.40pm on Saturday, and police declared a crime scene. “We believe that that person is, in fact, Jana, the missing person in this matter, and she was deceased,” Collins said at a media conference. Police later executed a search warrant at a home on West Street in the Toowoomba suburb of Harristown and arrested the 48-year-old man, who was found at the home with Armstrong’s four-month-old baby. As of Sunday morning the remains had yet to be formally identified.

Police are seeking dashcam and CCTV footage from anyone who was in the area between Toowoomba and Esk—specifically on the New England Highway and Esk-Hampton Road—between 10.30pm on 7 July and 1.30am on 8 July to help establish movements on the night Armstrong was last seen. A postmortem examination will determine how Armstrong died, and the accused man is due to appear at Toowoomba magistrates court on Monday. Police expressed their deepest sympathies to Armstrong’s family.

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