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Libby Wilson11:48, Jul 13 2021
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A man died at a Nawton, Hamilton, home, in April after reports of a serious assault. Police later laid a murder charge.
A man accused of murder in a Hamilton suburb is “acutely unwell” and in mental health care. The 19-year-old accused faces one charge of murder on April 28, 2021, in Nawton. Emergency services were called to Aileen Place about 11am that day, after reports of a serious assault, and police later said a 43-year-old man had died. The accused cannot be named, but his case was discussed at the High Court at Hamilton on Tuesday morning.
Her cry came almost at the same time as the fatal blow by her niece, Selassie-I Iraia, Justice Graham Lang said at sentencing in the High Court at Hamilton on Tuesday. “You plainly knew Ms Iraia was carrying a knife and you intentionally encouraged her to use it to stab Mr Bennett. That is so regardless of whether she may already have been committed to that act before you called out.” The woman who delivered the fatal blow, 21-year-old Iraia, is serving a jail sentence of two years and eight months for manslaughter. Anderson-Humphrey and Bennett had been together about five years – including about two when he was in prison – and had a daughter together, the court heard.
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The defendant couldn’t bear to see his wife suffer after a severe stroke left her unable to move without help and made communication very difficult (file photo).
A man in his 80s who took his wife from a care home and tried to enact what he says was a failed suicide pact has been sentenced to home detention. After decades of marriage, Roy Ernest Morton, 82, became increasingly concerned about how his wife was being looked after in a Waikato care home in the months following a severe stroke. His desperation came to a head on October 12, 2020, when he took her out under the pretext of a walk, and made an attempt on both of their lives.
Emergency services were called to a property on State Highway 27, Matamata, in December 2018.
A man has admitted killing his partner on a rural Waikato property the night before Christmas 2018. Paraki Edwards, 42, pleaded guilty to two charges in the High Court at Hamilton on Friday morning. One was the murder of Michelle Hurunui, 32, and the other causing grievous bodily harm to a child with reckless disregard, both in Matamata. He is now subject to what’s known as the “three strikes law” and Justice Mary Peters gave him a warning of the consequences of further violent offending. Outside court, a family member of Hurunui said he was glad the case wouldn’t need to go to trial, and family members wouldn’t have to relive the events as witnesses.