Fawcett accuses former mobster of making up ‘confession’ story

March 4, 2014 | By More

chch-court-roomA former Mongrel Mob member recalled to court today was cross examined by murder accused Mauha Huatahi Fawcett who accused him of coming to court with a made-up story.Fawcett told him that a lot of the evidence throughout the trial did not put him at the man’s house at the time he said he was there getting drugs with two other men in the early hours of the morning after sex worker Mellory Manning’s death.

The man had told the court on the 17th day of Fawcett’s trial in the High Court at Christchurch that the men turned up and told him a sob story about what had taken place, but he didn’t believe it until the next day when he saw it on television.

Fawcett denied he had made confessions to the man later about what had happened when Miss Manning was attacked, but had shown him the witness statements, and the autopsy report, and he had made up a story from them.

The man said Fawcett had told him a lot of things that took place, that they had talked about it for days.

He said Fawcett told him he feared for his life, and the witnesses had either set him up, or dropped him in it, and that he had had to take some part in the attack because he thought he would get his gang patch.

“He told me what happened to her, and he told me his role in it,” he said.

Fawcett said his life was on the line, in this witnesses’ hands, and he did not say that to this witness. Fawcett said it was inconsistent with all his own statements.

“My head was on a stick, and if I knew who it was, I would have put them up there,” Fawcett told the court.

Fawcett, 26, who was a Aotearoa Mongrel Mob gang prospect, denies murdering 27-year-old Ngatai Lynette Manning, known as Mellory, on or about December 18, 2008, and is defending himself.

Manning’s body was found in the Avon River on the morning after her death.

The trial is being held before Justice David Gendall and a jury.

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