Samuel Deane Fane is on trial at the High Court in Tauranga facing two charges of murder.
The man on trial for a 2020 double murder texted his cousin on the day of the killings asking for bullets, telling him it was a “life or death situation”. Samuel Deane Fane, 26, is on trial at the High Court in Tauranga where he faces two charges of murder. He is accused of killing Paul Lasslett, 43, and Nick Littlewood, 32, in Omanawa on February 11 last year. Fane’s partner Sarah Lee Tarei is also on trial facing a charge of being an accessory after the fact to the alleged murders.