Natalie Bracken.
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Natalie Bracken is on trial alongside Eli Epiha at the High Court at Auckland, where she denies a charge of accessory after the fact of murder.
Epiha admits one charge of reckless driving causing injury and one charge of murder, but denies the attempted murder of Hunt s colleague David Goldfinch.
In a police interview played to the jury this morning from the day after the shooting last June, Bracken told Detective Sergeant Ashley Matthews she did not know Epiha although his face looked familiar.
She said she was having a cigarette at a house next door to her ex-boyfriend s on Reynella Drive when she heard a crash and ran across the road to help an injured bystander.
The pair are on trial at the High Court at Auckland. On the day of the shooting, a dark purple Toyota, driven by Epiha, caught the two constables’ attention and was flagged in the police national intelligence system.
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Constable David Goldfinch describes how the shooter came after him with a gun and how he believed he would die. Constable Goldfinch previously told the court the pair had been on road policing duties with their car stationed on Triangle Rd, in Massey, when Epiha’s “erratic” driving caught his attention, before they caught up with him on Reynella Dr having crashed into a vehicle injuring a man.
Natalie Bracken claims she feared being next in the firing line, the day Eli Epiha fatally shot Constable Matthew Hunt
Natalie Bracken claims she feared being next in the firing line, the day Eli Epiha fatally shot Constable Matthew Hunt 21 July 2021
The 31-year-old s charged with accessory after the fact as she drove the gunman from Auckland s Massey in June last year.
Epiha admits murdering Hunt, and injuring a passerby, but denies attempting to murder Constable David Goldfinch.
The High Court at Auckland s watched Bracken s two-hour Police interview today.
She describes seeing Epiha shooting, while she ran to help a bystander hit by a car.
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Top fashion designer Trelise Cooper was the victim of a $750,000 burglary at her head office last year. (Photo / File)
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A cake decorator is fighting to keep her identity suppressed after being accused of receiving a small amount of the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of high-end clothing stolen from fashion designer Dame Trelise Cooper.
Cooper s head office in Auckland s Newmarket was broken into last October and her entire 2021 spring and summer samples pinched.
A 42-year-old man admitted to being the burglar this month.
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