Lynne Martin, 63, was found dead in the cells at the Gisborne Police Station on Thursday morning, Stuff understands. She was being held there before being transferred to prison, after a jury on Wednesday afternoon found her guilty of murdering her father, Ronald Allison. At the time of her father's death, Martin was "flat broke", and an undischarged bankrupt with just $119 to her name, and she knew she would get $150,000 from her father's will, Manning said. "That phone call, sadly, seems to be all it took to set her off on a chain of events that led to her father's death," he said. It wasn't a "remarkable coincidence" that these strands of evidence pointed to Martin being the killer, he said.

Source: Stuff November 23, 2023 11:55 UTC