Suspended sentence
PA Auckland A suspended Maori social worker Eddie McLeod, who threatened to “necklace” a hospital board consultant, Mr Hiwi Tauroa, last year, has been given a nine month suspended sentence in the District Court at Auckland.
McLeod, aged 56, of Auckland, changed his plea to guilty on a charge of threatening to cause grievous bodily harm to Mr Tauroa last October.
The charges followed Mr Tauroa’s recommendation to the Auckland Hospital Board that the Whare Paia Unit at Carrington Hospital should be closed. As Mr Tauroa left the board meeting, Mr McLeod called out: “You have heard of the necklace. You are number one.” He later confirmed he had been referring to the South African-style necklace killings, in which victims have a tyre holding petrol put around their necks and set alight.
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