Murder trial starts for Ōpōtiki cold case killing of Brian Hilton
Mon, 5 Jul 2021, 2:38PM
Harry Clements Matchitt is on trial for murder in the High Court at Tauranga. Photo / George Novak
Murder trial starts for Ōpōtiki cold case killing of Brian Hilton
Mon, 5 Jul 2021, 2:38PM
"I probably went there and pushed him over or kicked him ... I'm not going to lie."
Those were the words Harry Clements Matchitt told police in an interview two years after Brian Albert Hilton, 77, died after a brutal assault in his Ōpōtiki home.
Matchitt, 52, is on trial in the High Court at Tauranga for murdering Hilton on July 7, 2016. The Crown says Hilton died after he was punched, stomped and kicked in the attack.