Three teenagers have pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a 90-year-old woman after she was attacked at her home in Levin. Grace Virtue died from a brain injury three weeks after the home invasion and assault in November last year. The teens had name suppression - the youngest was 14 - and all pleaded not guilty to murder. However, this afternoon the trio pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Virtue's niece, Wendy O'Moore, told the court that she and her husband had driven to her aunt's home after the invasion.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 08, 2020 08:14 UTC