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Chazz Hall sentenced to minimum 15 years jail for murder of young mum

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NZ Herald,
Publish Date
Fri, 10 Mar 2017, 11:47AM

Chazz Hall sentenced to minimum 15 years jail for murder of young mum

Author
NZ Herald,
Publish Date
Fri, 10 Mar 2017, 11:47AM

Hawke's Bay man Chazz Hayden Hall has this morning been sentenced in the High Court at Napier to life in prison, with a minimum non-parole period of 15 and a half years for killing his ex-partner.

Hall, 29, pleaded guilty in January to murdering mother and Plunket nurse Victoria Foster at her Westshore home in October 2015.

Justice Graham Lang says Hall fired the shotgun through the mouth of Ms Foster, after she ended their volatile relationship that night and was repeatedly telling him to get out of her home.

Their 5-year-old daughter was asleep in the next room at the time.

Hall has a permanent disability from injuries received when he was shot by police in Clive, after they'd been chasing him for an hour following the killing.

He also admitted charges of dangerous use of a firearm, threatening to kill police, unlawful use of a firearm and dangerous driving.

The Crown had earlier asked for a minimum prison term of at least 17 years.

Hall had originally pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering 24-year-old Victoria (Tori) Foster in her apartment at Napier beachside settlement Westshore on the Labour Day night of October 26, 2015.

But he reversed his stance in the court on January 13 and admitted the charge, and avoiding a trial which had been scheduled to start in the High Court earlier this week.

He also pleaded guilty to charges of recklessly discharging a firearm, unlawful possession of the weapon, dangerous driving, and threatening to kill relating to a car chase after Hall fled the apartment, with his daughter still asleep inside, and which ended when he was stopped on the main highway through Clive and shot by police.

Three victim impact statements were read to the court on behalf of Miss Foster's sister, uncle and cousin, and later defence counsel Russell Fairbrother QC revealed that in addition to the shotgun Hall had also taken to the house a bottle of wine "in the hope that events would turn out differently."

- NZ Herald

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