Superannuitant sent for trial
PA Rotorua A Rotorua superannuitant will go on trial in the High Court in February charged with the murder of his wife. Frank Leonard Talbot, aged 65, was sent for trial after a depositions hearing in the District Court at Rotorua. He is charged with the murder of Isla Valerie Talbot, aged 54, on October The Court was told that . Leonard pointed a rifle at his -wife’s head and pulled
the trigger after she told him he was “too gutless” to do it. Mr D. J. McDonald, the. Rotorua Crown solicitor, appeared for the Crown and Mr J. N. Briscoe for the defendant At the end of the 2% hour hearing, Messrs A. P. Jesson and J. A. McLeod, Justices of the Peace, found Talbot had a case to answer. He was remanded in custody and will face trial by jury in the High Court at Rotorua on February 17.
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