A Brisbane man will probably be extradited to South Australia over allegations he struck one other man with an axe after a girl allegedly coerced him in becoming a member of the tried homicide plot.
Zacharia Josef Bruckner, 36, was arrested in Brisbane over the alleged tried homicide of Jonathan Hawtin within the Adelaide Hills in 2017.
Mr Bruckner can also be dealing with prices of conspiracy to homicide Mr Hawtin and his mom, Rhonda Hawtin.
Queensland Police prosecutor Eddie Fraser instructed Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday South Australia Main crime Detectives had been looking for to extradite Mr Bruckner to Adelaide to face these prices earlier than an area Justice of the Peace.
Mr Fraser stated SA Police had additionally arrested 43-year-old Lisa Strains in Palau in connection to the tried homicide of Mr Hawtin.
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“In October 2017, Strains tried to homicide Hawtin by coercing Bruckner to assault Hawtin with hatchet,” Mr Fraser stated.
“Hawtin suffered such severe accidents that he’s a quadriplegic.”
Police had initially charged Mr Hawtin with tried homicide after Mr Bruckner had suffered gunshot wounds to the hip.
Mr Hawtin was subsequently acquitted over the capturing after a Supreme Court jury discovered him not responsible in 2019.
Mr Fraser instructed the court on Thursday SA Police now allege Mr Bruckner “shot himself within the hip” and he and Ms Strains allegedly “staged a crime scene to make it appear to be Mr Hawtin was the offender”.
“Each lied in signed affidavits,” Mr Fraser stated.
Mr Fraser stated a second try on Mr Hawtin’s life was made once more in January 2018 when Ms Strains allegedly once more tried to kill Mr Hawtin “by coercing a feminine buddy to smuggle Hawtin whereas he lay in mattress whereas recovering in hospital from the October 2017 hatchet assault”.
The court was instructed the “feminine buddy” was stopped by hospital employees outdoors Mr Hawtin’s room and fled.
SA Police may also allege Ms Strains and Mr Bruckner have conspired to homicide Hawtin and his mom Rhonda by way of the hit man between December 2021 and the current day.
Mr Fraser stated there had been “communication” with each Mr Bruckner and Ms Strains recorded by an individual posing as a success man.
“Strains and Bruckner engaged with an individual identified to police and expressed their intentions to have Hawtin and Rhonda murdered,” Mr Fraser stated.
It will likely be alleged in court that Mr Bruckner spoke to an individual on September 16, 2022, the place he admitted to attacking Mr Hawtin with a hatchet in October 2017.
“Bruckner acknowledged he attacked Hawtin and thought he wouldn’t survive as a result of quantity of blood,” Mr Fraser stated.
“Bruckner then shot himself within the hip to create a self defence case.
“Bruckner defined that Strains entered the storage as soon as listening to the gunshot, Strains known as triple-0 and whereas on the cellphone within the storage Hawtin made a noise so Bruckner struck him two additional instances with the hatchet.”
SA Police will additional allege Ms Strains instructed an individual in October 2022 that she knew Mr Bruckner was going to attack Mr Hawtin within the storage.
The court was instructed SA Police allegedly recorded Ms Strains telling Mr Bruckner on the cellphone in December 2022 about “her fears of returning to Australia and her suspicious that they’d be arrested for the 2017 offending”.
“She instructed Bruckner if she was to be arrested, he would even be arrested,” Mr Fraser stated.
Mr Fraser stated Mr Bruckner was identified to go to family throughout the nation “on brief discover” and had not too long ago been working in Brisbane for the Queensland Curriculum and Evaluation Authority.
“The character of the offendings had been extended, calculated and having taken place over a interval of 5 years,” he stated.
“Each the defendants, Bruckner and Strains, have taken excessive measures and have gone to nice bills to have Hawtin and Rhonda killed.”
Mr Bruckner’s solicitor Zoe Kransky instructed the court her client didn’t contest the extradition and had engaged a South Australia based mostly lawyer for the remaining for the rest of his case.
The extradition was granted on Thursday, with Mr Bruckner ordered to look earlier than South Australia Magistrates Court
Ms Strains was charged with two counts of tried homicide and with two counts of conspiracy to homicide.
She has been remanded in custody in Koro, Palau.
