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Denver Chance was last seen on February 24, 2019 before being reported missing. On Thursday, police experts told jurors how Google location history tracked Lingman’s phone to the Linwood Rd area in Kingseat, and how he was captured on CCTV travelling there on the day Chance was last seen alive. Police technical specialist Kerry Baker told the court a backup of Chance’s iPhone was found on his MacBook at the Mairangi Bay property he was living at while he was still considered a missing person. It allowed police to track his phone s movements - as his phone has never been recovered.
Denver Chance murder trial: Worries after awesome flatmate went off the grid
10 Mar, 2021 04:50 AM
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Jay Christopher Lingman has pleaded not guilty to murdering Denver Chance. File photo / RNZ
An alleged cocaine importer in suburbia kept his illicit life secret and was a near-perfect flatmate, murder trial jurors heard today.
Gregory Flannagan knew about Denver Chance s healthy eating, creative writing and poetry interests.
Auckland man Denver Chance died in 2019. Photo / Supplied
Flannagan also knew Chance in the past had run-ins with the law and drugs, Auckland High Court was told.
But Flannagan said Chance, 43, was embarrassed about the past and showed no desire to be in the drug trade.
Trial of man accused of murdering Denver Chance begins in Auckland Jean Bell
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Jay Christopher Lingman has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Auckland man Denver Chance in 2019.
He pleaded guilty, however, to three charges of possession of drugs, including cocaine and MDMA, for supply as the trial in the High Court at Auckland began today.
Lingman is accused of fatally shooting Chance in February 2019. The Crown argues he shot Chance three times in the head before storing the body in a chest freezer.
Chance was last seen on 24 February 2019. He told friends at his flat in Mairangi Bay that he was popping out and would be back soon, but his body was found two weeks later at a property in Kingseat, south of Auckland.