Then Dungey turned to Noudga’s own handwritten notes, seized when she was arrested and officers searched her home. Police found dozens of letters written by Millard in jail and smuggled to her. Also seized were draft letters to him and notes, like a diary, she said.
One of her notes is titled “Brilliant Ideas.”
Dungey then read a broken series of point-form notes about a scheme to profit from the criminal life of future boyfriends.
“Bonus: cannot kill me because I will have a signed confession … get money from them (another option).”
Dungey asked what she meant.
“If I date anyone else I should find out if they have a criminal life,” she explained.
That way I could blackmail them and receive something in return. It was too late for Dellen,” she said. It would be “a way for me to profit” from a boyfriend’s criminal activity.
“Through blackmail?” asked Dungey.
“Yes,” she said.
“So this is your criminal mind at work?”
She said she didn’t have a criminal mind.
“What would you call it?”
“A childish idea that I wrote down,” she said. “I tend to have a bad sense of humour.”
