Australia Lisa Lines With Children Parker and Savannah - Vanished After Bizarre Axe Attack - Possibly Living Overseas - Littlehampton in Adelaide Hills (SA)

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Man left tetraplegic in attack allegedly orchestrated ex-wife, lover

A man left paralysed from the neck down in a murder plot allegedly orchestrated by his former wife has spoken out about his struggles since the 2017 axe attack.

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In a statement released after Lines appeared before Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday, Mr Hawtin said he is 'profoundly relieved' his two children are safe 'after six long years'.

'This has been a cruel and exhausting struggle, my mother and I have been through hell, but we never gave up and we never would have,' he said.

Mr Hawtin said the extradition of Lines to Australia came after 'years of hard work and a determined effort' by the South Australian police's major crime branch.

'The complexity of this operation is hard to overstate, and what they have achieved – working across international jurisdictions and coordinating with numerous other agencies – deserves special recognition.'

He praised 'the moral courage and strength of character' of the police and said his family 'still faces a lot of challenges ahead.

'These new challenges will require an equally committed effort, as we work to pick up the pieces and rebuild a childhood for my children.'

My goodness the graciousness of this poor man to THANK the people who initially prosecuted him!

 

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Adelaide academic accused of attempting to kill her ex searched methods to kill, court hears

An Adelaide woman who allegedly attempted to murder her ex-partner had searched for "hit men" and "poison" and had proposed methods of killing including "bombing or gassing", a court has heard.

Lisa Lines, 45, appeared in South Australia's Supreme Court on Tuesday, where she made a bid for home detention bail.

The former university academic and historian was extradited to Adelaide from Palau in 2023 after the alleged attempted murder of her ex-partner, Jonathon Hawtin, in 2017.

Dr Lines is charged alongside Zachariah Bruckner, 32, who prosecutors allege hit Mr Hawtin several times in the neck with an axe, rendering him tetraplegic.

Police allege that, in the incident at the Littlehampton home, Mr Bruckner also received a gunshot wound to his stomach.

Mr Hawtin was himself charged over the 2017 shooting at Littlehampton but was subsequently acquitted when a Supreme Court jury found him not guilty in 2019.

Another woman, Letitia Fortune, 37, is charged with attempting to smother Mr Hawtin with a "pillow or bag" at the rehabilitation centre where he was recovering.

All have previously pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.

In court today, Dr Lines's defence argued she should be released on home detention bail due to the hardship her imprisonment has on her children, and that her complicated health needs are not being met in prison.