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A prisoner who took part in a fatal assault inside the country’s maximum security prison has had four years added to his prison sentence.
Lopeti Telefoni was sentenced for the manslaughter of Blake Lee at the High Court in Auckland on Friday, his 22nd birthday.
CCTV video of the March 2020 attack, inside an exercise yard, showed Telefoni drop Lee with a single punch before another prisoner, Siuaki Lisiate, repeatedly stomped on Lee’s head and stabbed him with a shank.
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A social media influencer who allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted a young man was “very manipulative”, a court has heard.
On Thursday, numerous messages were shown to the complainant who accepted there was an element of flirting between the pair. The court also heard the complainant sent a photo of himself naked to the defendant.
The influencer, who has interim name suppression, has admitted assaulting the first complainant at a party in 2019 and possessing MDMA, also known as ecstasy.
A social media influencer accused of sexually assaulting two young men confessed his love to one of them and told people the pair were in a relationship, a court has heard.
The man, who has interim name suppression, has admitted assaulting the first complainant at a party in 2019 and possessing MDMA, also known as ecstasy.
However, he denies three counts of sexual violation, two charges of stupefying and three counts of blackmail.
Two men charged with the murder of 31-year-old Alec Moala in south Auckland have denied the charges.
Moala, from Papatoetoe, was fatally shot on Beatty St in south Auckland’s Ōtāhuhu last month.
Two prisoners accused of taking part in a fatal assault inside the country’s only maximum security prison have been found not guilty of Blake Lee’s murder, while another has been found guilty of manslaughter.
Lopeti Telefoni was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter, on Tuesday after a three-week trial at the High Court in Auckland.
In maximum-security prison, sometimes it's attack or be attacked.
That's what an inmate's lawyer told the Blake John Lee murder trial today in her closing address.
Paul Simon Tuliloa, Riki Wiremu Ngamoki and Lopeti Telefoni have all pleaded not guilty to murder.
A maximum security prisoner has confirmed stomping on an unconscious prisoner as he lay on the ground but says he had no intention to kill the fellow inmate.
Lopeti Telefoni is one of three prisoners charged with murdering inmate Blake Lee and began giving evidence in his own defence at the High Court in Auckland on Wednesday.
A former representative rugby player mailed methamphetamine around the country hidden inside face masks during a Covid-19 lockdown, a court has heard.
The defendant has pleaded guilty at the Dunedin District Court to six drug charges, stemming from a police sting last year.
Because of a suppression order, he cannot be named, nor can the team he previously played for be disclosed for fear of identifying the drug dealer.
According to court documents, police became aware of the defendant supplying the class-A drug in the Otago region in April last year.
