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Botched murder-suicide: Parole denied to complex Dunedin prisoner
6 Mar, 2021 01:45 AM
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Blair Tamihana. Photo / Rob Kidd
Otago Daily Times
By: Rob Kidd
A Dunedin man responsible for a botched murder-suicide has more work to do in prison before he can be safely released, the Parole Board says.
Blair Wiremu Tamihana, 45, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was jailed for three years and eight months when he appeared before the High Court at Dunedin in June last year.
After serving the minimum non-parole period of 22 months which included time spent on remand he came before the board last month.
That decision noted Soud had completed a Drug Treatment Programme. As well as a job offer, he also had support if he was to be released. He also planned to return to his studies next year. The board accepted that Soud was at low risk of re-offending and most unlikely to repeat the offending that brought him to prison. The board noted the offending happened during a DJ set at the now defunct 50 Gorillas bar on August 2, 2018.
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The Dunedin courthouse The fight was broken up and a fellow student asked him if he was “all good”. Soud hit the man with a glass, striking him on the temple, then threw the smashed glass, hitting a second student in the face and a third on the chin.