Teenager Isla Bell excitedly told a pal she had met ‘the best Russian sugar daddy’. Within 48 hours police say she was murdered – and the horrific details about her alleged fate have now been revealed after her body was found hidden in a fridge weeks later

Melbourne teenager Isla Bell thought she had found the man of her dreams in the days before she was allegedly brutally murdered by a man more than twice her age. 

Daily Mail Australia can reveal that police allege the 19-year old texted her friend just hours before her alleged murder expressing her happiness. 

In a Snapchat post sent on October 7, Ms Bell told her friend that she had ‘found the best sugar daddy’, court documents state. 

On Wednesday, Marat Ganiev, 53, of St Kilda, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court charged with her murder. 

His co-accused, Eyal Yaffe, 57, of Hampton, faces a charge of assisting an offender with murder.

Daily Mail Australia has obtained the court documents which have outlined the alleged harrowing final moments of Ms Bell’s life. 

Ms Bell told her friend this ‘sugar daddy’ had lavished her with gifts and ‘saved her from sex traffickers’. 

She had allegedly shacked up with Ganiev just two days earlier – a day after her frantic mother reported Ms Bell missing to police. 

Police allege Ganiev murdered Ms Bell just after midnight on October 7. 

Why remains a mystery for now. 

Homicide Squad detectives allege CCTV captured from outside Ganiev’s St Kilda East apartment complex captured what appeared to be him attacking Ms Bell. 

Cameras captured Ms Bell entering his apartment at 9.27pm on October 5 – she never left, police allege. 

From a gap in the front kitchen window, police allege Ms Bell’s head could be seen ‘whipping around’ as she was struck by Ganiev. 

‘She falls to the ground and Ganeiv can then be seen striking her on the ground of the kitchen,’ court documents state. 

‘What appears to be Bell’s head can be seen rising up before being pushed back down by Ganiev’s arm.’

The footage allegedly captured Ms Bell alive between 12.43am until 2am when she vanished from sight. 

Police allege Ganiev went to work cleaning the apartment over the following days. 

On October 9, Yaffe allegedly arrived at the property towing a black fridge on the back of a trailer. 

Police allege the fridge was brought into replace an old fridge the men then used to stuff Ms Bell’s body into. 

Police allege the fridge containing Ms Bell’s body was dumped in a driveway on October 17 in Caulfield South by both men. 

The fridge had been wrapped in plastic and tape. 

Eyal Yaffe (pictured) appeared jovial within the confines of the prison dock on Wednesday. He is accused of helping the man who allegedly murdered Isla Bell conceal his crime

Two days later, a mere hour after police attempted to contact Ganiev for the first time, police claim Ganiev moved the fridge to an address in Hampton. 

By then, a neighbour observed the fridge stank and had attracted flies. 

On October 22 the fridge was moved yet again, this time to an address in Bentleigh East where it remained for the next three-to-four days. 

A bag belonging to Ms Bell was allegedly dumped by Yaffe on October 28 after he was hauled in by police to be interviewed. 

Police executed search warrants at each of the addresses the fridge allegedly visited, finding a bucket hat belonging to Ms Bell at one of them. 

On October 30, police allege the fridge was moved again, this time to an address in Mulgrave. 

Stored behind other items in a van, the fridge turned up next at a recycling facility in Clayton on November 18 when a person opened the foul smelling appliance. 

Police allege a garbage bag containing Ms Bell’s body fell from the fridge, but was mistaken by the person for a dead animal. 

While the fridge was dumped with the rest of the hard rubbish on a street corner in Bentleigh East, the garbage bag containing Ms Bell’s body was stuffed in a residential bin around the corner. 

Ms Bell’s body would later be recovered from a Dandenong tip. 

Marat Ganiev, 53, of St Kilda appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday charged with murdering Ms Bell

When Yaffe was arrested, police allegedly found meth and $6000 in cash on him. 

He was also packing a ticket to Bulgaria, where police claimed he intended to flee the following day. 

While initially denying his involvement in concealing Ms Bell’s body, police claim Yaffe eventually admitted the crime, but claimed to have known nothing about how the teenager died. 

Yaffe appeared in court on Wednesday hours after his mate and alleged murderer faced a charge of murder within the same court. 

Placed behind protective bulletproof glass in the court’s prison dock, Yaffe was seen laughing with a security guard during his brief appearance. 

Seated before him at the front of the court appeared to be members of his family, whom he smiled and attempted to communicate with. 

A woman was seen crying as the court heard an intended bail application could not be held due to delays in the matter being called on. 

Isla Bell (pictured) was last seen leaving her Brunswick home, in Melbourne’s inner city, about 6pm on October 4

Yaffe is being represented by top Melbourne barrister Ian Hill – an elite Kings Counsel who helped get convicted cop killer Jason Roberts off the hook after years behind bars. 

Mr Hill will return to court on Friday, where he will fight to have Yaffe released from custody. 

Police are expected to oppose the bail application, arguing Yaffe is a flight risk with a swag of ‘unexplained wealth’. 

While it remains unknown how Yaffe is linked to Ganiev, social media accounts show the pair were friends on Facebook, with Ganiev’s profile picture seemingly containing a text alert from Yaffe in a bizarre profile picture. 

On Wednesday, Ms Bell’s heartbroken mother Justine Spokes issued a gut-wrenching statement in memory of her daughter as Ganiev faced court.

‘I am so, so sorry my darling daughter,’ she said. ‘I could not protect you from your complex illnesses and this cruel world.’

Dressed in black and appearing gaunt, Ganiev, of St Kilda, looked visibly unwell as the short filing hearing took place.

His lawyer, Adrian Lewin, told the court his client was in desperate need of his methadone medication – a drug used by addicts attempting to get off heroin.

The court heard Ganiev required 70mg of the medication, which he had not received for the past two days.

It remains unknown how or why police allege Ganiev killed the teenager, who was reported missing in October.

Police allege Isla Bell’s body was stuffed in a fridge and discarded with the garbage 

Ms Bell was last seen leaving her Brunswick home, in Melbourne, at about 6pm on October 4, just days before her 20th birthday. 

Her remains were found at a tip at Dandenong on Tuesday night and are yet to be formally identified. 

Ms Spokes paid a touching tribute to her ‘kind and adventurous’ daughter on Wednesday.

‘I was so proud of your choices this year, your strength to endure despite your suffering,’ she said.

‘All you ever wanted was to create, make and nurture life, to love and be loved.

‘We were so much looking forward to being reunited as a family again; my heart aches and cannot reconcile that’s not going to happen.’

She said Isla was, ‘the gentlest soul, the kindest human and free spirited.

‘I will connect to you in spirit my care bear and no one can take that connection away from us,’ she added.

Victoria Police are investigating whether Ms Bell’s remains had been placed into a household rubbish bin before they ended up at the tip. 

Detectives from the Missing Persons Squad arrested three men after executing search warrants at two properties in Bentleigh East and Mulgrave.

A 63-year-old Mulgrave man was released pending further enquiries.

The Missing Persons Squad formally took over the investigation in late October.

Shortly after her disappearance, Ms Bell’s best friend revealed their last conversation took place on October 7 – three days after she was reportedly last seen and the day police allege she was killed. 

During that conversation, Ms Bell was keen to talk about a recent night out and a new friend. 

‘She was just about to tell me all about her night. She abruptly stopped replying before giving me any more details,’ the anonymous friend said. 

‘She was very eager and excited to tell me all about it, then radio silence.’ 

Another friend said Ms Bell had struggled with mental health issues and did sometimes disappear for days at a time, but her recent disappearance was out of the ordinary.

‘The messages to her friend the night she disappeared were really sus, real dodgy crowd,’ they said.

‘The police have been pinging her and such but to not much immediate avail.’

Ms Bell’s mother, Justine Spokes, also shared her worries online. 

‘My girl is missing and dearly missed,’ she wrote on Facebook. 

‘She leaves an impression, she’s hard to forget. She has a fighting spirit, sometimes it’s loud and sometimes it’s soft, always enduring. 

‘We’re here for you bub. I love you my care bear.’ 

Ms Spokes later revealed the family had been planning to visit the Great Barrier Reef for Ms Bell’s 20th birthday and became alarmed when they couldn’t reach her. 

‘Hey bub. We’re looking forward to our reef trip for your birthday coming up,’ her mum wrote in a public message after she vanished.

‘We’ve been trying to call you to book flights. Let us know your thoughts.

‘We love you my darling.’