Australian woman accused of trying to disable husband after affair discovery

The jury was told Kennedy's (left) life came 'crashing down' after she discovered her husband David (right) was 'having an affair' with another woman. Photo / Supplied

A wife allegedly used her BMW to run down her husband of nine years and a woman he was "having an affair" with, in a deliberate and intended act of "extraordinary dangerousness", a court has been told.

Christie Lee Kennedy is accused of driving with intent to disable her ex-husband David Larkin and another woman, Zowie Noring, during an alleged violent road altercation in Brisbane's northside in March last year.

Kennedy has pleaded not guilty to charges of a malicious act with intent to disable, but guilty to assaulting Noring.

At the start of her District Court trial on Monday, Larkin gave evidence that he last remembers hearing a car "accelerating erratically" before seeing Kennedy's white BMW heading directly towards him.

He gave evidence that once he regained consciousness, he saw his wife with a "handful of Zowie's hair" and throwing punches at her, calling her a "slut".

During Larkin's cross-examination, he was questioned whether he was having an affair with Noring at the time of the incident.

"No," Larkin answered.

He then told the court he had been "intimate" once with Noring, but they were "not in a sexual relationship".

The jury was told Kennedy and Larkin had been married for nine years, but their relationship began to deteriorate by late 2020.

Crown prosecutor Jennifer O'Brien said Larkin became closer to Noring in January 2021.

The court was told the pair bonded over shared traumatic experiences, after Larkin's young boy nearly drowned days before Christmas in 2020.

O'Brien said a week before the incident, Kennedy set up the Find My Phone app on Larkin's mobile.

In the afternoon of March 19, 2021, Noring and Larkin arranged to meet at a park in Wavell Heights.

"Mr Larkin said he wanted to see Ms Noring because he needed to chat to someone that day," Ms O'Brien told the jury.

O'Brien told the court Larkin then saw his wife driving her white BMW, which crossed the wrong side of the road and struck the pair.

"Ms Noring will tell you Ms Kennedy grabbed her by the hair and punched her to the back of the head several times," she said.

"(Ms Noring) recalls hearing Ms Kennedy screaming profanities and she heard words like 'Fat moll'."

The Crown contends Kennedy intended to disable Larkin and Noring when she drove her car – a "large and powerful" object – and ran them over.

"The question to determine is what specific intent did Kennedy have when she drove her car," O'Brien said.

O'Brien said the jury needed to consider Kennedy's manner of driving, her relationship with her husband and her use of the Find My Phone app on her own mobile.

In her opening, defence barrister Penny White said Kennedy's world came "crashing down" when she discovered her husband was "having an affair".

She said the intent of her client to hit the two complainants was a major issue in the trial.

White urged the jury to consider the evidence of when Kennedy found out her husband was "having an affair" and carefully analyse CCTV footage of the car to determine whether her client formed any intent to "disable" the pair.

The trial, before Judge Tony Moynihan, continues.