It looks as though Peter Dutton has yet another Kiwi crim to add to his “To-Be-Deported” list. Let’s see Jacinda Ardern try to protest the human rights of this particularly nasty piece of work.
A New Zealand man will serve 13 years in jail for his “cold, continuous and callous” role in the manslaughter and torture of two people.
Tepuna Tupuna Mariri is one of eight people charged over the deaths of drug dealers Cory Breton and Iuliana Triscaru, whose bodies were found in a toolbox in a dam in Logan, Queensland, in 2016.
Make no mistake, this was an especially gruesome crime. Breaking Bad-type gruesome.
Mr Breton and Ms Triscaru were found decomposing in a two-metre toolbox in a Logan dam on February 11, 2016, 18 days after they were last seen. It’s believed they were killed over a drug dispute.
Justice David Boddice said Mariri had played an active role in the death of the pair[…]
The court heard Mariri, alongside Tuhirangi-Thomas Tahiata who was sentenced to life in prison in February this year, Ngatokoona Mareiti and five others lured the pair to a Kingston apartment in late January 2016[…]
The group then bound and tortured Mr Breton and Ms Triscaru over a number of hours, before forcing them into the toolbox. The box was loaded on to the back of a ute driven to Scrubby Creek. Holes were drilled in the box and the pair were shot before the box was pushed into the water.
It’s believed the pair were still alive when they entered the water. By the time their bodies were found they were so decomposed no final cause of death was able to be determined, but it was either drowning or strangulation.
The court heard Mariri and others had sat on the top of the toolbox after Ms Triscaru attempted to escape. He also instructed the doors and windows be shut so neighbours would not hear the shouting and screaming coming from inside the apartment.
The prosecutor told the court Mariri had helped filled the toolbox with rubbish and other personal items and that when the others loaded the box on the back of a ute, he distracted neighbours.
Blood was pouring out of the box when it was loaded on the ute, and after his co-accused drove off, he and a number of others cleaned up the apartment.
I wonder if Ardern will concede that this is one of her “genuine Kiwis who do need to learn the consequences of their actions”? Or will she keep wagging her finger at the Australian government for ridding our shores of New Zealand’s criminal refuse?
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