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Worried resident Ashleigh Newth talks to Stuff about the weekend's death at a Christchurch social housing complex.
A man accused of murdering a tenant at a social housing unit had hours earlier been granted police bail for allegedly stealing a car.
It was not until after the fatal stabbing that police were informed of accusations that he had also strangled and used a weapon to seriously injure the man at the time he took the car.
Kenneth Daniel Hawkins died at his Christchurch home on April 24. A 28-year-old man has been charged with his murder.
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