Who Killed Scott Guy? by Mike White

Author:Mike White [White, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: book, TRU002000
ISBN: 9781743434994
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2013-09-12T12:00:00+00:00

When Johnson was sentenced, Diane Bullock noted in a victim impact statement how the malicious note had caused Kylee ‘a large amount of emotional heartache. Kylee was very distressed about this letter, trying to imagine how someone could do this to us at this tragic time. The letter was clearly designed and sent to cause the most emotional harm possible.’

Similarly, at trial Kylee said she couldn’t understand how anyone could be so cruel as to leave the anonymous notes in their letterbox the rural posties had given evidence about. As she tearfully related this, it was impossible not to feel huge sympathy for her. But for Ewen Macdonald’s defence team, Kylee’s apparent horror at the hateful notes presented them with an incredible quandary—because they knew something about Kylee that virtually nobody else did.

Kylee had two sisters, Chanelle and Jessica. Chanelle, who lived in Hawke’s Bay at the time, had been engaged to a man, Hohepa Osbourne, known to his friends as Hoe. During their relationship, Osbourne had met Palmerston North teacher Leanne Wylie and begun an affair. Wylie is adamant she had no idea Osbourne was engaged to Chanelle at the time or going out with anyone else.

In about November 2007, Chanelle discovered Osbourne was cheating on her with Wylie. Using Osbourne’s cellphone, Chanelle and her sister Jessica sent texts to Wylie pretending to be Osbourne and eventually got Wylie to disclose her address. When Wylie twigged that it wasn’t Osbourne texting her, she received abusive texts calling her a bitch, slut and home breaker, Wylie said. Kylee Guy later acknowledged that while she had no part in the anonymous texts, she was aware of them.

Not long afterwards, on her 30th birthday on 22 November 2007, Wylie received a phone call from a sister of Chanelle—someone she believed was Kylee. Chanelle, however, says it was her other sister, Jessica, who made the call. Whoever called spoke to Leanne’s friend Petrea Twort and asked about her relationship with Osbourne and called Wylie names, Twort said. Wylie said the texts and call spoilt her birthday.

After discovering Osbourne was cheating on her, Chanelle broke up with him. Upset at what had happened, Chanelle and her young son began visiting Kylee in Feilding often.

At some stage during one of Chanelle’s visits, she and Kylee went shopping in Palmerston North. On their way home they drove to Wylie’s home and pulled up in her driveway. Chanelle wrote a note on a scrap of paper, saying, according to Wylie, something along the lines of ‘I told you I’d find you’ or ‘I know where you live’ and put it in Wylie’s letterbox.

Kylee claims she tried to talk Chanelle out of it and didn’t know what the note said, but Chanelle told police that when she put the note in the letterbox, ‘I couldn’t hardly walk because I was laughing so much.’ Chanelle insisted the note ‘wasn’t anything sinister, it would have been a saying or something funny’.

Wylie, unsurprisingly, failed to see the funny side of it, though.

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