The grieving father of a teenage mother who died in suspicious circumstances has spoken of the heartbreaking moment he discovered she was dead and he was lost without her.
Yolonda Mumbulla, 19, was found dead in her North Bondi unit on Tuesday morning after her partner Aaron Carey, 32, claimed to have found her not breathing.
Mrs Mumbulla was pronounced dead at the scene.
When police arrived a short time later, they arrested Carey, who was wanted on an unrelated outstanding warrant for larceny.
Her devastated father, Derek Mumbler, is completely “torn” by the loss of his youngest daughter.
“She’s my beautiful daughter,” the father of six said. The Daily Telegraph.
Yolonda Mumbulla (pictured) was found unconscious in her North Bondi unit on Tuesday morning.
Derek Mumbler (pictured) said he is ‘lost’ without his youngest daughter
‘This shouldn’t happen. Should not.
‘I’m so lost.’
Mumbler recalled how detectives came to his home Tuesday morning to give him the heartbreaking news that Yolonda had died.
“I was very surprised,” he remembers.
‘It’s still hard to process everything right now.
‘I miss my daugther. I miss her.’
Yolonda traveled regularly from North Bondi to visit her father in Macquarie Fields in recent years.
She was here last week. She was here a couple of days,’ she said.
‘She was ok. I was glad to see her. We sat and talked.
“We had a beautiful relationship.”
Mumbler said her daughter, who descends from the Yuin and Yaegl tribes, left James Meehan High School in Year 11.
WhatsNew2Day Australia previously revealed the troubled couple, who allegedly took drugs together the night before, had a child together last year.
Carey gushed about her new family in a social media post from January 2023.
‘I love you so much baby. Thank you for starting a family with me,’ she wrote.
The unit in North Bondi where Yolonda’s body was found is part of a famous public housing apartment block in an otherwise largely affluent suburb.
‘I’m the luckiest guy to have you in my life, Yolonda.
‘You make me the happiest man who ever lived. I love you a lot.’
However, Mumbler claimed that he did not know Carey “from afar.”
The unit where Mumbulla lived is part of a squalid public housing apartment block in an otherwise largely affluent suburb.
A neighbor told WhatsNew2Day Australia the unit complex is known for loud disturbances.
“It’s a housing commission block, there are always fights and loud music coming from the units,” he said.
“I used to live in a block of flats, so I know what they’re like, now I live next door, and a lot of junkies live in this block in particular.”
The couple was known to police, with a domestic violence warrant against them, which included standard conditions preventing them from associating.
Yolonda and her partner Aaron Carey welcomed a child together in 2023
NSW Police are now investigating whether a drug overdose caused what detectives have declared Yolonda’s “suspicious” death.
Following investigations, officers executed a search warrant at an address on nearby Flood Street in Bondi on Tuesday night, where police allegedly seized one gram of methylamphetamine and cannabis at the scene.
Carey was charged on the outstanding warrant with theft of a value less than or equal to $2,000, three counts of entering a vehicle or boat without the consent of the owner/occupant, destroying or damaging property less than or equal to $2,000, hindering or resisting a police officer in execution. duty and goods suspected of theft in/on the premises.’
Carey was refused bail to appear at Downing Center Local Court on Wednesday.
A second man, aged 34, was issued a Country Court Attendance Notice to appear at Waverley Local Court on June 18.
Specialist forensic officers remained at the unit until Tuesday evening as investigations into his injuries continued.
It is understood that multiple lines of investigation remain open into the cause of Ms Mumbulla’s death.
A strike force has been set up to investigate Mumbulla’s death and lines of inquiry include “misadventure”, New South Wales Police said on Wednesday.
Aaron Carey (pictured) has been charged with a series of crimes unrelated to his partner’s death.
