Life sentence
PA Timaru An Ashburton man was sentenced to life imprisonment last evening after being found guilty in the. High Court at Timaru of the murder of his wife. Keith Lionel Duncan, aged 38, a television technician, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Nicola Sharon Duncan at Ashburton on December 15 last year. The jury took 5 hours and a half to' reach its verdict,
returning to the court at 10.35 p.m. . ; Duncan stood impassively i in the dock as Mr Justice j Mahon imposd the manda- : tory sentence.
During the three-day trial, j the Court had heard how [ Duncan had strangled his wife with a dog chain after an argument. He had then taken her body to a remote part of the Rakaia Gorge and hidden it under vegetation. .
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Press, 20 August 1981, Page 1
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