Waikato axe death: Rydell Martin jailed for man s extremely violent killing
6 May, 2021 10:05 PM
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Police at the scene of Phillip Macpherson s death in Pukemiro, south-west of Huntly, in March 2019. Photo / Doug Sherring
Police at the scene of Phillip Macpherson s death in Pukemiro, south-west of Huntly, in March 2019. Photo / Doug Sherring
A man found guilty of killing a man with an axe in rural Waikato has been jailed for six years.
Rydell Martin was in March found not guilty of Phillip Macpherson s murder and instead found guilty by a jury of his manslaughter, in a decision which upset his family at the time who said striking someone with an axe was murder .
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Rydell Martin accepts he’s guilty of the manslaughter of Phillip Morgan in the tiny Waikato settlement of Pukemiro, a court has heard.
Was axe murder accused Rydell Martin an angry man delivering potentially fatal axe blows? Or was he merely trying to bring down a big man fighting his cousin in the street? These are the opposing cases of the prosecution and defence in his trial, to explain what happened in the Waikato settlement of Pukemiro the night Phillip Macpherson died. Rydell Tuaupiki Martin, 27, is charged with murdering Macpherson with an axe in a street fight on March 1, 2019.