Homicide detectives arrested Wayne Anthony Nelson, 47, in West Wollongong on Monday afternoon.

He was initially refused bail charged with aggravated break and enter and theft.

He pleaded guilty to the break and enter charge in Wollongong Local Court yesterday.

Police will allege Mr Nelson was one of three men that broke into the home of Lauren Mae Batcheldor, 39, in Brownless Place, Albion Park Rail, on January 14.

Ms Batcheldor is one of four people charged over Mr Digby’s murder, which police said happened sometime between January 23-25.

Samantha Wells, 35, of Cabernet Drive, Dapto, and Michael Pearman, 31, of Sheringa Grove, Cordeaux Heights, along with Ms Batcheldor, were remanded to appear in court on April 7 after being arrested on February 23.

Richard Walsh, 31, of Cabernet Drive, Dapto, is due to apply for bail today,

The court heard the three men got into the house through a bathroom window and stole a number of items, including jewellery, an antique coin collection and a laptop computer.

Detectives executed a search warrant on Mr Nelson’s home in Gundarun Street, West Wollongong, at 3.30pm on Monday, where they found some of the items under his kitchen sink, police said.

Police alleged one of the two other men involved in the robbery, who police are yet to apprehend, passed on some of these items to Mr Digby, who then pawned them at a Wollongong second hand shop.

Mr Digby’s body was found in Mount Murray Road, Mount Murray, by Robertson firefighters after a passing train driver called in a car fire on January 25.

Mr Digby’s badly burnt body was found in an incinerated 1990’s Mazda near a disused railway crossing.

Strike force Gosling detectives, formed to investigate the death, found the former Cronulla man’s Ford Falcon in Wollongong on January 29.

Detective Inspector Mark Newham said police would also allege all four people were known to each other and all played a part in Mr Digby’s death.

Inspector Newham last week described Mr Digby’s death as “gruesome and violent” but said police were still awaiting a pathologist’s report on the exact cause.