Death not from attack

Press, 9 May 1979, Page 4

Death not from attack

PA Auckland ; man found dead in a I bar toilet after being assaulted by two youths had (died from a spontaneous [condition that could not be (directly attributed to the accused. the Magistrates (Court at Auckland was told. I Before Mr N. R. Taylor, S.M., were James Flavell Hunt, aged 21. an unemployed painter, of Mount Eden, and Michael Ngari McGregor, aged 21, a labourer, of Greenlane. Both pleaded guilty to an (indictable charge of assault with intent to rob, and were remanded in custody to the I Supreme Court for sentence. I Sergeant G. Narbey said

that at 5 p.m. on March 24: the accused were drinking ini a bar of a lower-city hotel. L They had been in two otheril hotels during the day. McGregor asked Hunt to lend : him some money so that he ; could continue drinking, but Hunt was unable to do so. i They decided to rob some- . body in the hotel’s toilet. . Sergeant Narbey said the accused followed a man into ' the toilet. McGregor punched ;

ihim in the stomach. As ’he! I fell to the floor, Hunt struck him on the head and' body. The man, Sergeant Narbey said, was discovered by] another hotel patron. He was I found to be dead, but he had: died from a spontaneous! subarachnoid haemorrage. • His death could not be I directly attributed to the actions of either accused. |