Dunedin doctor Venod Skantha, right, was jailed for life for murdering 16-year-old Amber-Rose Rush. Police were called to reports of a prisoner’s death at Otago Corrections Facility, near the South Otago town of Milton, about 4pm. Skantha had been sentenced to life in prison after fatally stabbing to death 16-year-old Amber-Rose Rush at her Dunedin home on February 3, 2018. Shane Rush said it had been a ‘’hard, sad, emotional road” since his daughter's death, and it “felt like it would go on forever’’. STUFF Shane Rush, the father of Amber-Rose Rush, reads a statement outside the High Court at Dunedin after Venod Skantha was found guilty of her murder in November 2019.

Source: Stuff April 14, 2021 21:37 UTC