“He says it made him feel dirty and snap,” she said. Fallowfield then straddled Reedy on the bed and strangled her, McKenzie said. When Fallowfield lifted his hands, she was limp, McKenzie said. Defence lawyer Katy Barker, in her opening address, said there was no dispute that Fallowfield was responsible for Reedy’s death.
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Shirley Reedy, who was found dead in a Te Anau motel in May 2020. The defence case was that Fallowfield wanted his wife to be quiet when she said, without cause, “rape, rape, rape”, Barker said. Fallowfield did not intend to cause bodily injury and the Crown could not prove beyond reasonable doubt about his state of mind, she said.