Murder trial jury heads home overnight
Four-and-a-half hours after it retired to consider its verdict, the jury in the Mellory Manning murder trial has headed home for the night without reaching a decision.
It will resume its deliberations in the High Court at Christchurch from 9.30am on Tuesday.
The jury members decided at 5pm to bring the day to a close. The day had begun with Justice David Gendall’s summing up at 10am, in the four-week trial of 26-year-old Mauha Huatahi Fawcett, who denies the murder of sex worker Ngatai Lynette Manning, 27, also known as Mellory, in December 2008.
They had begun their deliberations about 12.30pm.
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