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Axe murder trial: repeated angry axe blows or attempt to stop a fight?

Dominico Zapata/Stuff 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.

Pukemiro axe murder accused s blows struck bone, he says he wanted only to stop the fighting

Dominico Zapata/Stuff Rydell Tuaupiki Martin, 27, said he used the axe not to hurt [Phillip Macpherson], just to defuse the problem of a fight in Joseph Street, Pukemiro . His axe blows struck bone on two occasions, but a man accused of murder says he didn t mean to kill. Rydell Tuaupiki Martin, 27, is facing trial for a murder charge over a death following a street fight in a Waikato township. Martin accepts he delivered the fatal axe blow that severed an artery in Phillip Macpherson s leg, in Pukemiro on March 1, 2019. But he says he s guilty of manslaughter, not murder. Martin, also known as Tuo, said he used the axe not to hurt him, just to defuse the problem , the High Court at Hamilton heard on Monday.

Man accused of axe murder tells court he did not mean to kill

Dominico Zapata/Stuff Rydell Tuaupiki Martin is facing a murder charge and an assault charge related to a fatal fight in Joseph St, Pukemiro, in north Waikato in March 2019. The man accused of an axe murder in a north Waikato village says he only intended to knock a man over when he fatally struck him in a street-fight. Rydell Tuaupiki Martin, 27, is on trial for the murder of Phillip Macpherson. He has admitted to delivering the fatal axe blow in Pukemiro on March 1, 2019, but says he is only guilty of manslaughter. The defence has opened their case in the Hamilton High Court on Friday, with Martin giving evidence before the 10 jurors.

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