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# Scribble Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1498/
- Published: 2026-06-04T18:30:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-04T18:31:25.000Z
- Description: The police investigation into Peters’ death was painstaking, and was the subject of a piece on the TV series Cold Case in 2022.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> A gang member who killed a harmless man in “an act of thuggery” has been jailed for seven years in a cold case that culminated in Napier High Court.  
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> Erueti Wirihana, 29, a patched Mongrel Mob member, was sentenced on Thursday for the manslaughter of Eddie Peters and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.  
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> Peters, 45, was [found critically injured in a pool of blood on a Hastings street just after midnight on November 16, 2018](https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/hawkes-bay/108657136/man-with-serious-injuries-was-left-in-the-middle-of-a-flaxmere-road?ref=goodoil.news). He died one week later in Wellington Hospital.  
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> The police investigation into Peters’ death was painstaking, and [was the subject of a piece on the TV series Cold Case in 2022](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/130348786/cold-case-crime-series-hopes-to-give-victims-a-voice?ref=goodoil.news).  
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> In July last year police arrested and charged Wirihana. In April he [pleaded guilty to manslaughter and perverting the course of justice](https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360969703/man-admits-cold-case-murder-eddie-peters?ref=goodoil.news).  
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