A man booked an airline ticket to Japan in the two hours between fatally stabbing his mother and his arrest at an airport’s international terminal, police allege.

Emergency services were called to a residence on Chestnut Place about 4.20pm on Monday at The Gap in Brisbane’s northwest, Queensland Police said.

They said they found a local 79-year-old woman, Cecilia Yoke Webb, with multiple stab wounds across her body and she was declared dead at the scene.

Emergency services were called to a home on Chestnut Place in The Gap, Brisbane after a woman’s body was found after an apparent stabbing on Monday, March 24, 2025. (9News)

About two hours later, Australian Federal Police arrested her son, 40-year-old Victorian man Alexander Clive Webb at the front entrance of Brisbane Airport’s international terminal.

Detective Inspector Michael Jones said the crime scene, in the front yard of a suburban home, was one of the worst he had seen.

“The injuries were quite horrific. She was stabbed multiple times. The scene itself was particularly horrific,” he told reporters.

Emergency services were called to a home on Chestnut Place in The Gap, Brisbane after a woman’s body was found after an apparent stabbing on Monday, March 24, 2025. (9News)

“I’ve been an investigator for over 20 years and it was one of the worst crime scenes I’ve seen.”

Webb, from the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn, was later charged with one count of murder as a domestic violence offence.

Webb was not in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday when his case was briefly mentioned and his solicitor did not apply for bail.

Det Insp Jones said police would allege that Webb purchased a Japanese cooking knife before travelling to The Gap on Monday and used it to stab his mother multiple times.

Emergency services were called to a house on Chestnut Place about 4.20pm on Monday at The Gap in Brisbane's northwest, Queensland Police said.
Emergency services were called to a house on Chestnut Place about 4.20pm on Monday at The Gap in Brisbane’s northwest, Queensland Police said. (Nine)

“What we have been able to determine is that he did have a plane ticket and he intended to travel to Tokyo,” Det Insp Jones said.

“He left The Gap area in an Uber and travelled to an address in South Brisbane. He then caught a second Uber to Brisbane International Airport.”

Det Insp Jones said he did not know what time Webb’s Tokyo flight was due to depart and what his motivation was for booking the ticket.

Emergency services were called to a home on Chestnut Place in The Gap after a woman’s body was found on Monday, March 24, 2025. (9News)

“(Webb) didn’t participate in a record of interview with police,” he said.

Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).
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