The 18-year-old girlfriend who fatally stabbed Brendan Hamilton to death is jailed for 14 years. Hamilton was stabbed in the neck during a confrontation on his daughter s first birthday.
Dominion Rd murder: Rikki-Lee Simeon guilty of murdering her partner Brendon Hamilton
24 Feb, 2021 03:28 AM
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A young mother has been found guilty of murdering her 21-year-old partner Brendon Hamilton.
Almost two years after Hamilton died in his Dominion Rd flat and more than two weeks after Rikki-Lee Simeon pleaded not guilty to murder, jurors reached a verdict at 3.40pm on Wednesday.
Hamilton, 21, was stabbed in the neck in the Mt Eden apartment and died the same day his and Simeon s daughter Shyanne turned 1 year old.
Brendon Izaac Lee Hamilton was 21. Photo / Supplied
The unanimous guilty verdict at Auckland High Court brought some tears of relief to Hamilton s family, who d waited for justice since May 18, 2019.
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A furious 18-year-old plunged the biggest knife she could find into her boyfriend's neck, a prosecutor told murder trial jurors today.
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