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Teen resentenced to life imprisonment for murder of retired teacher

Posted by Editor on Friday, July 6 at 2:35 pm

The teenager that killed a retired teacher has been re-sentenced in the Rotorua High court today. 


Lori-Lea Waiora Te Wini has been re-sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non parole period of 10 years' jail after the 2008 murder of retired Opotiki school teacher John Rowe. 



Te Wini and her cousin, Courtney Pauline Churchward, who was 16 at the time of the offence, were found guilty of murder and sentenced to at least 17 years in prison in December 2009.
Both appealed against their convictions and sentences and in June 2011 the Court of Appeal granted Te Wini a retrial. She pleaded guilty to murder four days before her retrial was to begin.

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