Shock twist as a second woman is charged for trying to kill Jonathan Hawtin, left in a wheelchair after alleged hatchet attack by the lover of his ex-partner Lisa Lines – as cops return her to Adelaide from remote Pacific island
A second woman has been charged with the attempted murder of a man at an Adelaide health center, a day after the victim’s ex-partner was extradited from a Pacific island.
A 34-year-old woman was arrested at her home in Everard Park in Adelaide’s south-west on Friday.
She was charged with the attempted murder of Jonathan Hawtin at Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre.
The woman has been taken into custody and will appear in court on Monday.
A second woman has been charged with the attempted murder of Jonathon Hawtin after his ex-partner Lisa Lines (pictured in Brisbane on Friday) was extradited from Adelaide following her discovery on the remote Pacific island of Palau.
It is claimed that Dr.’s former secret lover Lines, Zacharia Josef Bruckner, attacked her ex-husband, Jonathon Hawtin (photo in 2019) with an ax in 2017
It came a day after Hawtin’s ex-partner, former academic Lisa Lines, 43, was extradited from the Pacific archipelago of Palau.
The historian – a respected expert on the Spanish Civil War – was taken into custody in Palau earlier this month and arrested upon her arrival in Brisbane on Thursday.
The arrest relates to a complicated chain of events that began with a violent incident in the Adelaide Hills in October 2017.
Mr Hawtin became tetraplegic – paralyzed from the neck down – after he was allegedly repeatedly struck in the neck with an ax by Lines’ then partner Zacharia Bruckner, who was shot in the abdomen.
Mr Hawtin, 36, was charged with attempted murder for shooting 30-year-old Bruckner, with police believing the younger man acted in self-defence.
However, a jury of six men and six women unanimously acquitted Mr Hawtin in 2019 after three hours of deliberation.
Lines had told Mr Hawtin, with whom she had two children, in June 2017 that she wanted to separate, the jury was told.
She began a romantic relationship with Bruckner in August of that year.
The second arrest came a day after Mr Hawtin’s ex-partner, former academic Lisa Lines, 43, was extradited from Palau, a Pacific archipelago.
Dr. A respected historian, Lines was taken into custody on the island of Palau earlier this month and arrested upon her arrival in Brisbane on Thursday (pictured Friday)
In 2020, major detectives in South Australia reopened the investigation, resulting in an arrest warrant for Lines.
Bruckner was arrested in Brisbane earlier in November for conspiracy to commit murder and extradited to SA.
The pair are accused of attempting to kill Mr Hawtin during the October 2017 incident, and of co-conspiring to kill Mr Hawtin and his mother Rhonda Hawtin between December 2021 and August last year.
Lines is also accused of attempting to murder Mr Hawtin on New Year’s Day 2018.