McLean shot Mr Duggan in the right upper chest and again in the forearm. A violent struggle ensued during which Mr Duggan managed to smash McLean's head into the gravel. Mr Duggan wrestled the baton from his attacker and beat him over the head while he was being strangled. Police arrived to find Mr Duggan bleeding profusely and Mrs McLean dead inside the house. On the way there the defendant told them: “the kids would hate him forever and he would be inside for at least 20 years”.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 13, 2017 20:15 UTC