A BITTER husband hired a hitman named "Bruce Willis" to kill his childhood sweetheart turned estranged wife, a court has been told.
In the Court of Appeal in Brisbane, Steven John Clark, 35, was appealing his conviction and 16-year jail sentence for attempting to murder Sonya Maree Clark at her Ipswich home on April 16, 2004.The court was told the Clarks were childhood sweethearts but things turned sour and they were locked in a Family Court dispute over their two children and joint property.
Ms Clark was shot in the stomach when she answered the door of her Brassall home to a man who identified himself as the Hollywood action hero.
The gunman, who is still wanted, escaped in a white van.
It was alleged Clark told friends of his plans to hire someone to kill his wife.
His lawyers argued he had been in Quilpie, 12 hours away in western Queensland, on the night of the shooting.
But it was the Crown case that he had hired the unknown gunman to kill his wife.
Clark appealed on several grounds including his conviction had been a miscarriage of justice.
In a unanimous judgment the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeals against the conviction and sentence.
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