A man has been charged with murder over the death of Crystal Beale, whose body was found in a river earlier this year in Brisbane .

A member of the public saw Beale's body in the Brisbane River at about 5.40am on Saturday, February 22, and contacted police.

Investigators believe that at 8.30pm on Friday, February 1, Beale, 49, left a family dinner at a Sunnybank restaurant and travelled with a 49-year-old West End man, who was known to her.

He was allegedly the last person to see Beale alive when she got out of the car at 9.30pm on Ryan Street, West End.

But police now allege the man killed Beale and put her body into the Brisbane River.

Police searched an Equestrian Drive address in Maudsland at 5.11am this morning.

A 49-year-old man was arrested and charged with domestic vi

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