A man who was found not guilty by reasons of insanity after killing his father has been detained as a special patient at the Mason Clinic.
Authorities were
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An Auckland man accused of having murdered his 63-year-old father has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Dion McFarland was not in attendance in
Man accused of killing his dad in West Auckland is fit to stand trial for murder, court told
11 May, 2021 09:33 PM
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Police and St John attended the homicide scene on Waitaki St in West Auckland. Photo / Hayden Woodward
Police and St John attended the homicide scene on Waitaki St in West Auckland. Photo / Hayden Woodward
A man accused of murdering his father in West Auckland is expected go on trial later this year.
Dion McFarland, 39, is accused of murdering Derek Lance McFarland, 63, in November last year.
Justice Sally Fitzgerald told the High Court in Auckland she received a report about the murder-accused from the Mason Clinic forensic psychiatry facility.
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Forensics arrive at the scene on Waitaki St, Henderson, where a man died on Thursday, November 19, of serious injuries following a disturbance .
A man charged with murdering his father in west Auckland has been found fit to stand trial. Derek Lance McFarland, 62, died after a “disturbance” at a house in Waitaki St, Henderson on the night of November 19. Dion McFarland, 39, was charged with his murder and is currently remanded in the Mason Clinic psychiatric facility.
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