Man guilty of murder

Press, 16 March 1981, Page 7

Man guilty of murder

PA' .. Rotorua! Mason Turanganui Manama, a bushman, of Taupo nas been sentenced to . Jire imprisonment after a R U nt y « m th u H ‘ gh CoUrt at Rotorua had found him DavRJ °r the murder of Alan David Turner at Taupo on August 16, 1980. Paul Patterson, aged 21. a bushman, of Whakatane, and ' Adnan Ngamotu, aged 17 a M» t a Cutt^ r ’ of Tau P°’ were < found guilty of being accessories after the fact of the TnV5„ der u Of Turner and Alan 1 John Heagney, aged 17 j unemployed, of Tokoroa, 1 was found guilty of offering i ? n , ’ndignity to a human body. - Mr Justice Bisson re- i manded- all three to appear < in the High Court at Hamnton for sentence on March 1 20 Heagney was allowed ’ bail.

When the trial opened last Monday, all four accused had denied the charge® against them. A member of the Crown solicitors’ panel in Rotorua, Mr G. T. O'Sullivan, with him Mrs S. Kenderdine, of Wellington, prosecuted. Mr S. Lockhart, of Auckland, with him Mr I. Howden, of Taupo, appeared for Marama; Mr A. P. Christiansen, of Taupo, appeared for Patterson; Mr P. T. Birks, with him Mr J. T. M. Chadwick, both of Rotorua, appeared for Heagney; Mr M. S. McKecknie, of Rotorua, appeared for Ngamotu. In his summing up to the jury, his Honour said that the accused were before them as individuals and not as gang members and that they were entitled to be dealt with on that basis.