Photo: Christine O'ConnerThe man who murdered Dunedin teenager Amber-Rose Rush has died at a South Otago prison. A Dunedin jury in 2019 unanimously found Skantha guilty of stabbing Amber-Rose to death. In a statement supplied to the ODT last night relating to a death at the jail, prison director Lyndal Miles said Corrections staff unsuccessfully tried to save a man who died at the Otago Corrections Facility, near Milton, yesterday. Several sources have this morning confirmed that the man was Skantha, a former doctor at Dunedin Hospital. The man, who had been speaking to current Otago Corrections Facility staff, said an interview was supposed to take place with prisoners when they received bad news.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 14, 2021 21:33 UTC