Moko's killers got manslaughter to eliminate 'substantial risk' of either walking free STACEY KIRKONE NEWSEmotional scenes from court as Moko’s killers Tania Shailer and David Haerewa are sentenced. He said there was a "significant risk" that either one or both killers could have walked free, if it was left up to a murder trial. But no one wanted these two to walk free - could that have really happened? That is a plea bargain - offering to plead guilty to a lesser charge in an attempt to reduce the sentence. The anguish has been compounded by the Crown Prosecutor's decision to downgrade initial murder charges to manslaughter - for which they both pleaded guilty.

Source: Stuff June 27, 2016 06:14 UTC