It was a conspiracy to murder that was only foiled thanks to good fortune.

Patrizia Rolls was to have been the victim but now counts herself as the luckiest woman in Australia.

Aaron Rolls outlined his chilling plan to kill his wife in a telephone call to his lover, Mirvat Sleiman, but chose the wrong public phone box to make that call.

It'd been bugged by police as part of an unrelated investigation on the Gold Coast.

Detectives rushed Patrizia to a safe house, just hours before her husband planned to take her life.

• Fake writs
• Salvo crooks
• Emergency line hoax