A former professional soccer player charged over the torture of a woman found close to death in his inner-city Brisbane home complained the townhouse smelled "like a morgue", a court has heard.
Jeromy Lee Harris, 41, was likely to be freed on bail after a Supreme Court justice said the prosecution's case against him was "weak" and there was no evidence he harmed the 21-year-old woman, who was found in the Bulimba townhouse on July 2.
The former Brisbane Strikers National Soccer League player was not accused of directly harming the woman.
Instead the Crown's case was that Mr Harris was a party to the alleged offending of the woman's boyfriend, co-accused Nicholas John Crilley, 31, who was said to be living in another part of the townhouse with the alleged victim.
The former footballer's defence counsel, Tony Glynn QC, said the injuries appeared mostly to have been inflicted at a hotel in Spring Hill.
Mr Harris was allegedly seen leaving a hotel with a bundle that appeared to be the woman, who the court heard had only recently emerged from an induced coma.
"There's not a shred of evidence to support the proposition that any injury was caused to the complainant at the Bulimba address and certainly none to suggest that any injury was caused to her whilst the applicant was at that address," Mr Glynn told the court.
"I'm raising at the moment that he was at Noosa (during a part of the alleged offending period)."
The court heard Mr Harris asked his co-accused to use private messaging app Wickr, which is fully encrypted and allows messages to be set to self-destruct.
Director of Public Prosecution senior legal officer Victoria Adams argued this was done "because of the seriousness of the matter".
She also read out text messages showing Mr Harris offering to visit the chemist for a woman and apparently discussing her injuries.
Other messages from Mr Harris's phone read to the court appeared to show him refusing a request from Mr Crilley, including saying "I can't do this shit".
"Yeah I know, I'm back in Bris and my house smells like a morgue, I can't stay here," read another message sent to a third party.
Mr Harris was applying for bail for the second time in a week, after he surrendered to a police station last week to be charged.
Mr Glynn argued his client was not a risk of fleeing or contacting witnesses, particularly considering he proposed living with his mother in Yeppoon, near Rockhampton.
Justice Glenn Martin asked Ms Adams if the 41-year-old was accused of causing the woman's injuries.
"Not as yet," she replied.
Justice Martin said there was no evidence the injuries were caused at the financial planner's Bulimba home and some evidence suggest he told Mr Crilley he could not help him.
The judge found Mr Harris was not a risk of fleeing or contacting witnesses with proper conditions imposed and indicated he would free him on bail pending a police check on his mother's home.
Mr Harris intends to fight the charges.