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Driver identifies Liam Reid close to Spencer Park
A woman motorist has identified Liam James Reid as driving a car towards Spencer Park on the day Emma Agnew was murdered, and she says she saw him at the motor camp again a few days later.
Carol Penaia, who lives at the motor camp with her children, told Reid?s High Court trial she was returning from Christchurch that morning when a red car pulled out in front of her at the Janet Stewart Reserve on the corner of Lower Styx Road and Marshland Road.
It was driving erratically. She followed it for several kilometres until it pulled left near Spencerville.
She said she saw the driver leaning over the passenger seat, but she made eye contact with him as she slowly passed. She identified Reid, pointing him out in court.
She also said she saw him walk past her as she sat in her car at the motor camp a few days later. She said he stared at her. ?He was trying to check me out as if he had seen me before, too.?
She picked his photograph out of a police montage.
She was carefully cross-examined by defence counsel David Bunce. He put to her that she identified Reid in the montage because she had seen him at the motor camp rather than driving the car.
She replied: ?I did see him in the car and at the motor camp.?
Emma Agnew?s body was found near Spencer Park 11 days after her disappearance. Her car, which she had on sale with a notice in its window, was found at Bromley Park on the day she disappeared ? November 15, 2007. It was a red Mazda.
Reid denies raping and murdering Miss Agnew, and raping, sexually violating, robbing and attempting to murder a woman in Dunedin nine days later. His trial before Justice Panckhurst and a jury is expected to take at least four weeks.
