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Malcolm Rewa to go to trial for third time over Susan Burdett murder

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NZ Herald,
Publish Date
Mon, 6 Aug 2018, 2:50PM
Malcolm Rewa will stand trial for the third time next year. (Photos/ File)
Malcolm Rewa will stand trial for the third time next year. (Photos/ File)

Malcolm Rewa to go to trial for third time over Susan Burdett murder

Author
NZ Herald,
Publish Date
Mon, 6 Aug 2018, 2:50PM

Serial rapist Malcolm Rewa will stand trial for the 1992 murder of Auckland woman Susan Burdett for a third time, a High Court judge has ruled.

Today, Justice Geoffrey Venning, the Chief High Court Judge, said it is in the interests of justice for the third trial to proceed in February next year.

He also dismissed an application to stay the murder charge against Rewa, who is serving a preventative detention prison sentence for raping Burdett and 24 other women in the 1990s.

At a hearing last month, Rewa's lawyer Paul Chambers argued too much time had passed and "the prejudicial qualities" of past media publications would prevent a fair trial for his client.

Burdett was raped and bludgeoned to death in her Papatoetoe home in 1992.

Teina Pora was twice wrongly convicted for the crime and spent 22 years in prison before the Privy Council quashed his conviction in 2015. He has since received an apology from the Government and $3.5 million in compensation.

More to come.

 

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