When Maree Vermont’s Airbnb went up in flames and her body was burnt beyond recognition, her house guest had an unexpected question for police.
Just hours earlier, Ms Vermont’s home had been gutted by a fire, which Englishman Timothy Loosemore had escaped by being ‘out for a walk to gather firewood’.
The 62-year-old, from Somerset in the UK, had been staying with Ms Vermont, 60, in one of her spare rooms as her Airbnb guest at her Goldie home, 70km north of Melbourne.
It had been Ms Vermont’s pride and joy. A surveyor by trade, she had meticulously built it with her ex-husband
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