Killer has N.Z. past

Press, 1 October 1983, Page 8

Killer has N.Z. past

From

DIANA DEKKER

in London A British woman sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey in London yesterday for killing her millionaire former lover with a champagne bottle, was once married to a retired New Zealand dentist

The woman, Pamela Megginson, lived in New Zealand with him for some time before returning to Britain in 1970 and divorcing him, according to Fleet Street newspaper reports. The tabloid papers all splashed the story of the bizarre murder and Megginson’s sentence across, their front pages yesterday. Megginson, aged 61, killed Alec Hubbers, aged 79, in bed at an exotic house on the French Riviera.

The reports say that the wealthy, retired New Zealand dentist she married had spent his summers in Britain.

She had. gone to live with him in New Zealand but it was not long before she tired of her new life and found her husband a bore.

AH the time, Mr Hubbers, a successful East End furniture maker, had been writing to her, pleading with her to return to Britain to live with him.

The letter that finally made her leave New Zealand said only, “Come back, Eva is dead,” a reference to, another mistress.

Megginson divorced the dentist and lived with Mr Hubbers at his luxurious Essex home, in an area known as “Millionaires* Row.”

She killed Mr Hubbers with the champagne bottle knowing that he was intending to replace her with a French woman, aged 39, called Nicole who was. Mr Hubbers had told her, “better in bed than you."