Five-times-a-day sex case not over yet

A Malaysian woman who spiked her fiance's drink to "slow down" his sex drive may yet have poisoning charges against her revived.

Mee Kwan Ng, a 41-year-old former airline stewardess, claimed the man she was engaged to marry, Panmure nurseryman Martin Walker, demanded sex up to 35 times a week.

Ng walked free from court last week after police withdrew a charge of poisoning with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and JPs found insufficient evidence for the lesser charge of administering a poison.

But yesterday, police told the Auckland District Court they took issue with the decision, which could lead to a charge being relaid.

Ng's lawyers said her fiance had wanted sex morning, noon and night, and sometimes in the middle of the night as well.

Mr Walker, 53, said the claim of his demanding sex up to five times a day was an exaggeration.

Last week, JPs in the Auckland court heard that Ng put antihistamine and anti-inflammatory drugs in Mr Walker's drinks on three occasions, and also added Masterpet pet repellent to the cocktail on one occasion to "slow him down".

After the charges were withdrawn or thrown out, Ng was left facing only a minor charge of trespass, by failing to leave Mr Walker's home when told to do so after he confronted her with his suspicions.

The matter was to be dealt with yesterday when Amit Malik, of the Public Defender's office, asked Justice Edward Ryan to consider a discharge without conviction on the trespass charge.

But police prosecutor Sergeant Gareth Bostock told the judge that police were seeking a legal opinion from the Crown.

Judge Ryan said there was no entitlement to appeal - police could simply re-lay the charges.

In the light of police seeking a review of the JPs' finding, the judge said he could not agree to a request for a discharge on the trespass count.

Ng, a temporary visitor who lives and works on the North Shore, was given bail until a hearing next month.

In January, Mr Walker suspected he was being poisoned and police were called in but Ng refused to leave when told to go by Mr Walker - giving rise to the trespass charge.

Mr Malik told Judge Ryan yesterday that it was late at night when she was asked to leave the home. She had nowhere to go and no friends or relatives in New Zealand.

She was escorted off the property by police and spent a week in the YMCA hostel in central Auckland.

Mr Walker told Public Defender Michael Corry he accepted that Ng was not trying to cause him any significant harm.

She was "probably trying to dampen my romantic ardour".

But Mr Walker denied that he demanded sex with extraordinarily frequency.

He accepted that he asked for sex in the morning and when they went to bed, but denied wanting sex when he came home in the evening or at lunchtime, or if he did, only infrequently. He sometimes asked for sex when he got up in the night to go to the toilet, but again, infrequently.