Wellington - A 37-year-old New Zealand woman drove her car 13 kilometres with her lover hanging onto the bonnet, before deliberately staging a head-on crash to kill him, a court was told on Monday. Cindy Marcia Fairburn denied murdering Darren Paul Maxwell, 42, in August by crashing into an oncoming sports utility vehicle whose driver was seriously injured, when her trial began in the New Plymouth District Court.
The prosecution said Maxwell clung onto the car as she swerved from side to side to try to dislodge him in a act of revenge after she accused him of sexually assaulting their daughter, Radio New Zealand reported.
But a medical examination subsequently found no evidence to support that, the court heard.
