A sea lion mother Joy relaxes with her pup Rua near the Warrington domain months before Rua was found shot dead in November last year. He went on about it for like a week or 10 days or something,” Ms Cormier said. The court heard the brief relationship between Lowery and Cormier ended the day before the alleged killing of Rua the sea lion on November 5, 2016. Ms Cormier spent the night at a local resident's home and never saw the defendant again. "Because I thought it was the right thing to do; because I thought I had relevant information as to who killed the sea lion,” Ms Cormier said.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 21, 2019 02:03 UTC