The dark power of love

Beautiful young Swedish socialite Charlotte Lindstrom has been languishing in an Australian jail after having pleaded guilty to soliciting an alleged hitman to kill two witnesses about to give evidence against her boyfriend Steven Spaliviero in a drug trial. She claimed that the solicitation was not her decision; she was following her boyfriend's instructions.

But in a surprising development, Spaliviero has been cleared of all charges realting to the incident. In the trial, he argued that he never asked Lindstrom to pass on instructions to kill the witnesses; that she wanted them dead because she was besotted with him.

Well, it seems that one of them is lying. And either way it reveals the crazy, scary extremes some people will go to when they are in love.