Lisa Lines to go to trial for alleged attempted murder of ex-husband Jonathon Hawtin at Littlehampton
She allegedly plotted with two former partners to murder her ex-husband with an axe – putting him in a wheelchair – and then with a pillow. Now this woman will stand trial.
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The alleged mastermind behind a bizarre love-triangle murder plot that left her ex-husband a tetraplegic will stand trial for attempted murder, a court has heard.
Lisa Lines, 43, appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court in front of Chief Magistrate Mary-Louise Hribal on Thursday, who ruled the accused had a case to answer,
Ms Lines allegedly orchestrated a plot to kill her ex Jonathon Hawtin and his mother Rohnda Hawtin using a hitman.
Ms Lines, an academic editor, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of attempted murder and two counts of conspiracy to murder.
The court has previously heard Mr Hawtin had been rendered a tetraplegic in an earlier attempt on his life, with police alleging Ms Lines – along with her ex-partner and previous employee Zacharia Bruckner, 36 – carried out a brutal axe attack in October 2017 at Littlehampton in the Adelaide Hills.
Mr Bruckner has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.
Mr Bruckner was shot during the alleged altercation and Mr Hawtin, who was seriously injured after he was hit in the back of the neck with the axe, was originally charged with attempted murder before he was acquitted at trial in 2019.
The case was reopened after crime scene evidence was re-examined and police came to believe Mr Hawtin was the victim.
It’s further alleged Letiticia Fortune, another former lover of Ms Lines, attempted to smother Mr Hawtin while he was recovering from his severe injuries at Hampstead. The alleged attempt was thwarted by guards and she was subsequently charged with attempted murder, to which she will argue she has no case to answer.
Ms Lines was arrested on the tiny island of Palau, southeast of the Philippines, in November last year after police learned she was travelling there.
At the same time, police arrested Mr Bruckner in Brisbane, while Ms Fortune, 34, was arrested about a week later.
Chief Magistrate Hribal remanded Ms Lines in custody until March next year when she will face the Supreme Court for arraignment.
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