Fourth man charged with offences over alleged murder

A fourth person has been charged in the disappearance and murder of a cybersecurity expert last year.

Brisbane dad Andrew Burow disappeared from a Brisbane flat on August 24, then his badly beaten body was found in Maidenwell in the city’s north on September 2.

Police claimed that the 56-year-old man was taken to eight different places and tortured before his death.

The last person to be tried on one charge each of torture, deprivation of liberty and extortion in the matter was a 44-year-old Lake Macdonald man.

He is expected to appear before the Brisbane Magistrates Court on February 5 following his arrest on Friday.

Three men, aged 26, 38 and 57, have already been charged with murder, kidnapping, extortion and abuse of power by tampering with a dead body.

Police will allege Billy John Howard, 26, of North Lakes, and Mr Burow knew each other.

Another of the men, Anthony Perrett, 38, is a former CFMEU delegate named in an ongoing royal commission last year.

The inquest heard Perrett personally took witnesses to meetings with union investigator Geoffrey Watson SC.

Witnesses were fitted with recording devices.

CFMEU director Mark Irving KC said it was an intimidation tactic designed to ensure witnesses did not “squeal”.

There is no suggestion that the CFMEU was in any way linked to Mr Burow’s murder.