Mum-of-two is accused of RUNNING OVER her husband’s mistress in a BMW after she found out about their affair – before ‘dragging her out of the car and punching her in the head’
- Christie Lee Kennedy accused of running husband and his lover over in BMW
- Mother-of-two has been married to David Larkin for nine years before affair
- She used phone locator app to find her husband and mistress, court heard
- Court was told she grabbed his mistress by the hair while screaming ‘fat moll’
Moments after discovering an affair, Christie Lee Kennedy allegedly got into her BMW and ran over her husband and his lover at their Brisbane meeting place.
The mother-of-two then got out of her car, grabbed the mistress by the hair and punched her in the head while screaming ‘fat moll’, Queensland District Court was told.
Kennedy, 37, had been married to David Larkin for nine years and been with him for more than a decade when her ‘world came crashing down’ in March 2021.
Christie Lee Kennedy (pictured leaving court on Monday) was allegedly behind the wheel of a BMW when she drove at speed into her husband and a woman she believed was his mistress
Kennedy, 37, had been married to David Larkin for nine years and been with him for more than a decade when her ‘world came crashing down’ in March 2021
‘She found herself in a position no one would want to be in. She found out that her husband … was having an affair with another woman,’ defence barrister Penny White told a jury.
‘The events that followed from that realisation … all happened in a matter of seconds after she found out.’
Using a phone locator app, Kennedy tracked down her husband and discovered him talking with his lover by the side of the road at Wavell Heights, in Brisbane’s north, the court heard.
Kennedy accelerated towards them, on the wrong side of road ‘for some time’, before driving into the duo, crown prosecutor Jennifer O’Brien said.
CCTV footage from a nearby home captured the incident.
Using a phone locator app, Kennedy (left) allegedly tracked down her husband (right) and discovered him talking with his lover by the side of the road in March, 2021
CCTV footage from a nearby home captured the incident which just minutes after Ms Kennedy discovered her husband of nine years was having an affair
‘The footage will show that they were lined up and hit and rolled off the bonnet,’ Ms O’Brien said.
‘There was no attempt to swerve away or correct course to stop her from hitting (the pair).
‘Put simply … the defendant drove her car, a large and powerful object … and ran them over.’
Mr Larkin said he had been speaking to the woman for a couple of minutes before he heard a car ‘accelerating erratically’ and looked up to see his wife’s BMW, which he identified due to the personalised plates.
He said the next thing he remembered was ‘coming to on the roadway’.
Mr Larkin said he had been speaking to the woman for a couple of minutes before he heard a car ‘accelerating erratically’ and looked up to see his wife’s BMW, the court heard (pictured is the couple)
Mr Larkin then saw his wife grabbing the woman by the hair and repeatedly punching her while yelling words like ‘slut’, Ms O’Brien said.
Mr Larkin suffered head cuts, arm and leg bruising and swelling, rib pain and a dislocated finger.
The woman suffered head cuts, abdominal pain, arm abrasions as well as thigh and ankle injuries.
Mr Larkin said he had met the woman years ago through friends but had become close in the weeks prior to the incident after they had both been through ‘traumatic events’.
Kennedy (pictured leaving court on Monday) pleaded not guilty to two counts of unlawful striking causing grievous bodily harm and guilty to unlawful assault
He described his marriage as ‘fairly rocky’ but initially denied sleeping with the woman, before conceding he had been cheating on his wife.
‘We were having an affair if that is how you want to describe it,’ Mr Larkin said under cross examination.
Kennedy pleaded not guilty to two counts of unlawful striking causing grievous bodily harm.
She pleaded guilty to unlawful assault.
The trial before Judge Tony Moynihan continues.
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