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Rydell Martin accepts he’s guilty of the manslaughter of Phillip Morgan in the tiny Waikato settlement of Pukemiro, a court has heard.
Was axe murder accused Rydell Martin an angry man delivering potentially fatal axe blows? Or was he merely trying to bring down a big man fighting his cousin in the street?
These are the opposing cases of the prosecution and defence in his trial, to explain what happened in the Waikato settlement of Pukemiro the night Phillip Macpherson died.
Rydell Tuaupiki Martin, 27, is charged with murdering Macpherson with an axe in a street fight on March 1, 2019.