Prominent criminologist Greg Newbold says the bound and gagged woman who jumped from a moving car would have believed her life was in immediate danger.
The Canterbury University lecturer said the Asian woman, believed to be aged 35 to 55, most probably knew what was going to happen to her and her actions show her desperation to live.
About 7pm yesterday the boot of a silver sedan was forced open from the inside by an unknown woman, who was bound by her neck, legs and arms. She hurled herself out of the moving vehicle.
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Professor Newbold, who has inside knowledge of the New Zealand criminal underworld, said the woman would have believed she was "going to be killed".