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Sagaia Kaisala died after being run over in Māngere Bridge while trying to help a colleague who was being attacked. “I didn’t want to die, I want to fight with my life,” she said earlier in the trial. “I was calling someone to help me . I tried to kick him out from me and I know I’m going to die that day.” Niumagumagu then ran Matamua’s colleague Abdul Riyaz down with his car, the court heard. Riyaz said he “flew over the car”, and the next thing he knew he was sitting at Middlemore Hospital with blood on his head.
Jilted man guilty of attempted murder of ex, killing hero who went to help
Jilted man guilty of attempted murder of ex, killing hero who went to help Tue, 11 May 2021, 3:53PM
Soafa Niumagumagu has been found guilty of attempting to murder his ex-wife Puapuaga Matamua by stabbing her multiple times outside her workplace after she left him for another man.
He could be heard threatening to kill her as she struggled and called for help in the carpark of Oji Fibre Solutions at Māngere Bridge on June 20, 2019. Niumagumagu had been waiting by her car as she finished a shift, just weeks after she ended their marriage.
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Sagaia Kaisala, 32, died in the carpark of Oji Fibre Solutions on June 20, 2019. Photo / File
Sagaia Kaisala, 32, died in the carpark of Oji Fibre Solutions on June 20, 2019. Photo / File
Soafa Niumagumagu has been found guilty of attempting to murder his ex-wife Puapuaga Matamua by stabbing her multiple times outside her workplace after she left him for another man.
He could be heard threatening to kill her as she struggled and called for help in the carpark of Oji Fibre Solutions at Māngere Bridge on June 20, 2019. Niumagumagu had been waiting by her car as she finished a shift, just weeks after she ended their marriage.
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Police were called to a stabbing and death on Mahunga Drive in Mangere Bridge on June 20, 2019. Video / Will Trafford
Police were called to a stabbing and death on Mahunga Drive in Mangere Bridge on June 20, 2019. Video / Will Trafford
Jealousy is one of the strongest emotions felt by humans, a jury has heard in the trial of a man accused of stabbing his ex-wife and hitting two others with his car, one fatally.
Soafa Niumagumagu felt abandoned and beside himself with grief after his wife left him for another man, defence counsel Sharyn Green said in her closing remarks at the High Court in Auckland today.
While defence lawyer, Sharyn Green said while this was a terrible tragedy, Niumagumagu did not intend to kill Kaisala. Over the last few weeks, the court has heard from a number of witnesses present at the incident at Oji Fibre Solutions in Māngere Bridge, south Auckland.
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Sagaia Kaisala died after being run over. In the weeks leading up to the incident, the Crown says there was clear evidence the defendant had shown a desire for violence against his ex-wife, telling his co-workers he wanted to shoot or stab her. He was angry and in pain and wanted to “finish things”.