Collins admitted he had beaten Bacon to death with a cricket bat, later found snapped in two inside a rubbish bag in the kitchen of the address. Collision courseIn November 2018, when Collins and Dawson also made the move down from Christchurch, Bacon was enthusiastic. It would be easy for the victim's family to portray the killer as a monster, recast him as the embodiment of evil. The curtains at their home were pulled and, as time went by, the victim's family had a growing inkling the answers to their questions lay inside. Dawson pleaded guilty to being an accessory to murder and was jailed for two years, three months in November 2019.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 12, 2021 20:38 UTC