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“I have told [our daughter] that her dad is in the sky. Now if I ask her where is dad, she points to the sky.” McMaster said she wanted to see Locke spend the rest of his life in prison. “I hate Tristan for what he has done to our family. Our future has been stolen. Mark will never come home to us.” Cowling, originally from New Plymouth, moved to Christchurch six years ago, said his father, Graham Cowling. He said Cowling had no job, no accommodation and likely very little money, but he set about forging a new life.
Noisy neighbour murder: Cold-blood killer jailed for life Wed, 21 Jul 2021, 12:38PM
Tristan Locke was found guilty of murder after a trial at the High Court in Christchurch. (Photo / Kurt Bayer)
Noisy neighbour murder: Cold-blood killer jailed for life Wed, 21 Jul 2021, 12:38PM
An out-of-work barman who stabbed his neighbour to death in cold-blood after an early-morning row over loud music has today been jailed for at least 10 years.
Tristan Ross Locke, 31, was found guilty of murdering neighbour Mark Graham Cowling, 44, on last Father s Day, September 6, 2020, after a trial at the High Court in Christchurch last month.
American-born Locke became so incensed with Cowling phoning noise control, and cutting power to his flat at least twice over a few hours, that he took a knife, went next door, and stabbed him to death, the trial heard.
Marine Lourens05:00, Jun 05 2021
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Listen: The 111 call Tristan Locke made after he fatally stabbed his neighbour Mark Cowling during a dispute over noise.
“If I let go of him right now he s going to die,” Tristan Locke told a 111 operator after a dispute over loud music saw him attack his neighbour. MARINÉ LOURENS reports on the Father’s Day murder. An hour before Tristan Locke stabbed his neighbour to death, he called his grandmother. That’s what he usually did when he was feeling overwhelmed or distressed. It was only his mum and his grandmother who could comfort him when he felt this way. His relationship with them was very close, described by a psychiatrist as “unhealthy”.