Spurned Brisbane mum ran her BMW over cheating husband and his lover
Moments after discovering an affair, Christie Lee Kennedy allegedly tracked down her husband and ran him over along with his lover.
The mother-of-two then got out of her car, grabbed the mistress by the hair and punched her in the head screaming āfat mollā, Brisbane District Court was told.
Kennedy, 37, had been married to David Larkin for about nine years when her āworld came crashing downā in March 2021.
āShe found herself in a position no one would want to be in. She found out that her husband ā¦ was having an affair with another woman,ā defence barrister Penny White told a jury.
āThe events that followed from that realisation ā¦ all happened in a matter of seconds after she found out.ā
Using a phone locator app, Kennedy found her husband talking with another woman Zowie Noring by the side of the road at Wavell Heights in Brisbaneās north, the court was told.
Kennedy accelerated towards them in her BMW SUV, driving on the wrong side of road āfor some timeā before hitting the pair, crown prosecutor Jennifer OāBrien said.
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CCTV footage from a nearby home captured the incident.
āThe footage will show that they were lined up and hit and rolled off the bonnet,ā OāBrien said.
āThere was no attempt to swerve away or correct course to stop her from hitting (the pair).
āPut simply ā¦ the defendant drove her car, a large and powerful object ā¦ and ran them over.ā
Larkin said he had been speaking to Noring for a few minutes before he heard a car āaccelerating erraticallyā and looked up to see his wifeās BMW, which he identified due to the personalised plates.
He said the next thing he remembered was ācoming to on the roadwayā.
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Larkin then saw his wife grabbing Noring by the hair and repeatedly punching her while yelling words like āslutā, OāBrien said.
Larkin suffered head cuts, arm and leg bruising and swelling, rib pain and a dislocated finger.
Noring was treated for head cuts, abdominal pain, arm abrasions as well as thigh and ankle injuries.
Larkin said he had met Noring years ago through friends but had become close in the weeks prior to the incident after they had both been through ātraumatic eventsā.
He described his marriage as āfairly rockyā but initially denied sleeping with Noring before conceding he had been cheating on his wife.
āWe were having an affair if that is how you want to describe it,ā Larkin said under cross examination.
Kennedy pleaded not guilty to two counts of unlawful assault causing bodily harm.
She pleaded guilty to unlawful assault.
The trial before Judge Tony Moynihan continues.
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