Not guilty verdict for man accused of manslaughter of father-in-law stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Manslaughter accused found by cops on Tokoroa shed roof stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Man goes on trial for manslaughter of father-in-law stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Roberts faced just one charge: that between November 29-30, 2014, he murdered Karlos Stephens.
Stuff also revealed in the wake of Roberts’ conviction for manslaughter that he was deemed a “safe person” by a social worker, despite them being aware of an indecent assault conviction and the previous uplift of his own three children.
Benn Bathgate/Stuff
Shane Claude Roberts will spend the next six years behind bars for the 2014 manslaughter of a baby. On the opening day of the trial, Crown Prosecutor Anna McConachy told the jury of six men and six women that Karlos and his twin brother had been entrusted into the care of Roberts and his family as their mother, Pamela Stephens, was struggling to cope.