Fane, 26, was sentenced after a jury found him guilty of the killing of Lasslett, 43, and Nick Littlewood, 32, in Omanawa on February 11 last year. In front of a packed public gallery, and amidst a heavy police and security presence, Justice Gerard van Bohemen sentenced Fane to life imprisonment with a minimum period of 17 years. Fane’s partner Sarah Lee Tarei, 25, was also sentenced to nine months home detention after being found guilty of one count of accessory after the fact of murder. While van Bohemen said she had undoubtedly played a role in helping Samuel Fane attempt to avoid arrest, he cited her daughter when he handed down the home detention sentence.
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Ōmanawa double murder trial: Witness says two men ruthlessly fired shots into dead man s home
11 May, 2021 06:00 AM
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Armed police pictured at a cordon at the entrance to Ormsby Lane in the Kaimai Ranges, west of Tauranga. Photo / File
Armed police pictured at a cordon at the entrance to Ormsby Lane in the Kaimai Ranges, west of Tauranga. Photo / File
A witness in a double murder trial has described seeing two armed men ruthlessly firing shots into a converted shed where he then found two victims bleeding out . Crown witness Daniel de Martin told the jury in the Tauranga High Court yesterday that one of the shooters then turned his gun on him as he tried to run towards the shed.
Samuel Deane Fane is on trial at the High Court in Tauranga facing two charges of murder.
The man on trial for a 2020 double murder texted his cousin on the day of the killings asking for bullets, telling him it was a “life or death situation”. Samuel Deane Fane, 26, is on trial at the High Court in Tauranga where he faces two charges of murder. He is accused of killing Paul Lasslett, 43, and Nick Littlewood, 32, in Omanawa on February 11 last year. Fane’s partner Sarah Lee Tarei is also on trial facing a charge of being an accessory after the fact to the alleged murders.