Jury considering verdicts in Rangiora murder trial
The jury is considering its verdicts for two men accused of killing and wounding two brothers, on the eighth day of a trial in the High Court at Christchurch.
The jury went out at 12.35pm after Justice Rachel Dunningham completed her summing up in the trial of Jason William Baker, 40, of Linwood, and Shaun Robert Murray Innes, 37, of Rakaia, who deny joint charges of murdering Tony John Lochhead, and wounding Peter Graham Lochhead with intent to commit aggravated robbery.
The Crown alleged the attack was a drugs robbery-gone-wrong.
Baker’s defence team urged the jury to return a verdict of manslaughter rather than murder, because his judgment and his consideration of the consequences had been affected by the cocktail of drugs and alcohol he had taken.
Innes’ defence was that he had withdrawn from whatever the plan there may have been, and was already some distance away when the violence occurred.
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