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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-860/
- Published: 2023-11-01T17:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-01T02:27:44.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Crime, General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:07

Boohoo!

> A mass murderer who killed his three young sons during a rampage fuelled by a relationship breakdown has taken the New Zealand Parole Board to court, raising the possibility of bias after being denied release from prison 14 times.  
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> Raymond Wahia Ratima, 55, was jailed for life in 1992 after being found guilty of killing seven people, including three of his own children, on a murderous rampage in Masterton.  
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> Today, Ratima appeared via audio-video link in the High Court at Christchurch, seeking a review of the Parole Board’s decision to not grant him parole.  
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> On June 25, 1992, Ratima killed his three sons Piripi, 7, Barney, 5, and Stacey, 2, in their grandparents’ Masterton home.  
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> He also killed his brother-in-law Philip Ferguson Junior, 14, his heavily-pregnant sister-in-law Nicola Ferguson, 20, her partner Bevan Tepu, 21, and their son Stephen, 3.  
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> Ratima then lay in wait for his wife and her parents to return home, seriously injuring his father-in-law. He was convicted of attempting to murder him.  
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> Ratima was sentenced in 1993 to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 10 years after pleading guilty to seven counts of murder, attempted murder and killing an unborn child.  
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> NZ Herald

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