Photo: NZ HeraldA private member's bill replacing the verdict of "not guilty by reason of insanity" with "proven but insane" has been stalled after an 11th-hour intervention by Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann. The sponsor of the bill, Taupō MP Louise Upston, says she is offended by the late intervention after the justice committee had worked hard on refining the bill and unanimously supported it. But the Government tonight voted for the bill to return to the justice committee to consider the objections by the judiciary. "This bill is about Colin Moyle, his brother Graeme, their family and every other family of victims like this. Among the proposed changes is a clause making it clear that in a verdict of "proven but insane" the defendant would be acquitted.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 30, 2021 07:28 UTC