The ex-wife of alleged murder victim Shane Barker, who is also the daughter of the two people accused of his murder, has told a Tasmanian jury she does not remember saying she wanted her ex-husband killed.
Swansea couple Cedric and Noelene Jordan are on trial in the Supreme Court in Launceston for the alleged murder of 36-year-old Shane Barker on August 2, 2009.
Mr Barker was shot four times in the chest outside his house in Campbell Town in northern Tasmania.
His former parents-in-law, Cedric and Noelene Jordan, have pleaded not guilty to his murder.
The court has previously heard that the accused hated Mr Barker and wanted him out of their daughter Rachel's life.
Rachel Jordan was called to give evidence in the trial.
Today, prosecutor Jack Shapiro asked her about the ongoing problems between the pair since they separated in 2007.
"Do you remember saying you wanted him killed?", Mr Shapiro said.
"Not to my knowledge", Ms Jordan replied.
"Do you remember saying you didn't want him alive in her (Rachel's daughter's) life?"
"I don't recall it," she replied.
Mr Shapiro also asked if she ever said she should get a hitman.
"I can't recall saying that," she said.
"Do you recall saying that he should be killed," Mr Shapiro said.
"No," she said.
"Did you ever say to Shane you hated him?"
"I don't remember saying that," Ms Jordan replied.
Daughter kept diary, court hears
It is the Crown's case that Mr Barker was shot three times in the back and a fourth shot to his chest while he was on the ground.
The court was previously told the shots were fired from at least one metre away and Mr Barker's body was found inside his house in the hallway the following day.
Ms Jordan read to the jury excerpts from a diary that she kept that detailed concerns she had about the care of their daughter when she was being looked after by Mr Barker.
Mr Shapiro asked her if she wanted her daughter under Mr Barker's care, which was required as part of custody arrangements.
"There were orders for [her daughter] to go to Shane's … I probably wasn't happy about it," she said.
She said she often spoke to her mother about the problems she was having.
Mr Shapiro also asked Ms Jordan whether she remembered saying to an acquaintance that if she saw Shane Barker on the next hunting run she would "shoot the bastard".
"I don't remember saying that," Ms Jordan said.
She also denied any knowledge of a .22 pump action rifle that the prosecution alleges is the murder weapon.
The weapon has never been found.
The trial continues.
