Police investigating the suspicious death of a mother-of-four are expected to interview the man she was living with on Wednesday.
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The death of Kirra-Lea McLoughlin has devastated the close-knit community of Wolvi, about 200 kilometres north of Brisbane.
Investigators believe Ms McLoughlin suffered head injuries during a gathering at her Beenham Valley Road home last Wednesday night.
Paramedics were only called to the property the following afternoon, and the 27-year-old died in hospital on Friday.
Neighbours and friends described Ms McLoughlin as a loving and caring mother who would do anything for her children, who are all aged under nine.
She was a regular face at the Goomboorian Playalong Activity Centre, where she was known as a bubbly and energetic woman.
“She had the biggest smile and a beautiful face,” staff member Anna Doyle said.
“It’s really shaken us a lot. We’re only a small childcare centre and we do become close to the families. You live their lives with them.”
Friends said Ms McLoughlin was separated from her husband and had been living with another man at the property for the past eight months.
It is understood her children were not living at the house during the week of her death.
About six people have already been interviewed, and police are due to speak with her de facto partner on Wednesday.
Police are yet to officially determine how Ms McLoughlin died, and are investigating whether she suffered blows to the head during multiple scuffles last Wednesday night. Police were not confronted with a bloody scene and are unsure if a weapon was used.
Another of Ms McLoughlin’s friends, who didn’t want to be named, said the young mother was the kind of person who “would do anything for anybody”.
But since splitting from her husband, her life had taken a downward turn and her personality “completely changed”.
“She just got herself in a bad situation and couldn’t get out,” the friend said.
In April, Ms McLoughlin was arrested for groping a police officer and being caught behind the wheel with a blood alcohol reading of 0.176 following a night out in Gympie's CBD.
The following month she pleaded guilty to assaulting police and drink-driving.
