NEW TRIAL ORDERED
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. A new trial was ordered in rihe Supreme Court at Auckland after a jury 'failed to agree on a verdict after deliberating for five hours on a charge of murder. The accused, Brian Ronald McDonald, aged 21, an auto- ; mobile electrician, was reimanded in custody by Mr I Justice Mahon pending the I new hearing. He denied murdering Ronlaid Stephen Blyth, aged 19. The charge arose from a fight at a party in Mission Bay on iJanuary 27.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33534, 15 May 1974, Page 11
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