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Teenager pleads guilty to murder

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Teenager pleads guilty to murder

By: APNZ | Latest Crime News | Thursday May 17 2012 14:52

 

Teenager Lori-Lea Waiora Te Wini has pleaded guilty to the 2008 murder of a retired Opotiki schoolteacher, four days before her retrial was set to begin.

In the High Court at Rotorua today Te Wini pleaded guilty to murdering John Rowe at his home on November 25, 2008. She was 14 at the time.

Te Wini and her cousin Courtney Pauline Churchward (16 at the time of the offence) were found guilty of murder and sentenced to at least 17 years in prison in December 2009.

Both appealed their convictions and sentences and in June 2011 the Court of Appeal granted Te Wini a retrial, which had been due to start on Monday. Churchward has since had her sentence reduced to a minimum of 13 years.

Te Wini will be sentenced on July 13.

Photo: Lori-Lea Te Wini (NZ Herald)

 

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