As her homicide trial opened on Tuesday, Jackline Sabana Bona Musa has been accused of intentionally driving her black Toyota Kluger into Payman Thagipur on June 27, 2020, with an intent to both kill or trigger very severe damage.
Prosecutor Emma Blizard mentioned Musa was offended about discovering Thagipur with one other lady in his residence and had then pushed at him within the automotive park of his Wentworth Level condo block, fatally pinning him to the wall.
"It's the Crown case that on this state of anger she drove her automotive out of the parking spot in a short time, that she drove her automotive on the deceased intentionally as he walked in the direction of her by way of the automotive park," Blizard mentioned.
The NSW Supreme Court docket jury heard Musa and Thagipur met on-line and had been seeing one another since late 2019. By June 2020, Musa thought of him her boyfriend.
The final time the couple met in individual was June 21, 2020. After this, Musa despatched various textual content messages to her then-partner, none of which he responded to.
"Hello, how are you? Am involved and fearful. I simply needed to know that you simply're not harm or sick. If there's one thing I did fallacious, I want to apologise. Please get in contact," she wrote on the afternoon of June 27.
This message was ignored.
That evening, after failing to search out Thagipur at a Granville shisha bar he was identified to frequent, Musa sought him out at his condo, the jury heard.
Arriving at 8.13pm, she tried to realize entrance to the constructing with out preliminary success. She then tailgated one other automobile, ready till the curler door was raised earlier than she drove into the automotive park.
On her method in, the curler door impacted the highest of her Toyota, damaging each her roof rack and the door itself which now not opened and closed as regular.
After being let in by way of one other safety door by a resident who had come out to look at the damaged curler door, Musa then knocked on the door of Thagipur's condo to search out he was not alone.
"Is it your flip at the moment?" she is alleged to have mentioned to the opposite lady inside.
She is then claimed to have spat in Thagipur's face earlier than saying, "Is that this what you're like?" and leaving.
After he placed on some pants and a t-shirt, he walked out to the automotive park the place he was struck by Musa's automobile at round 8.30pm.
Musa known as triple-zero after the collision, the jury was advised.
"The accused advised the triple-zero operator that what had occurred had been an accident and he or she mentioned, 'I used to be driving out, he come out of nowhere in entrance of me'," Blizard mentioned.
No medicine or alcohol have been present in her blood after necessary police testing.
Blizard mentioned Musa's actions amounted to homicide as a result of they have been a deliberate try and both kill Thagipur or trigger actually severe damage.
The barrister mentioned that if the jury was not satisfied of this, nevertheless, they need to think about discovering Musa responsible of the lesser cost of manslaughter.
Defence counsel Madeleine Avenell SC didn't dispute that her shopper had pushed her automotive at Thagipur.
Nevertheless, she rejected allegations Musa had used her automotive with murderous intent or in an illegal method amounting to manslaughter.
"What's in dispute is that Ms Musa noticed Mr Thagipur earlier than colliding with him, that she intentionally drove at him as he walked by way of the automotive park and that she supposed to trigger him grievous bodily hurt or supposed to kill him," Avenell mentioned.
"She denies that the circumstances have been corresponding to to quantity to an illegal and harmful act of manslaughter."
The trial with Justice Richard Button continues.