Despite being cousins, Ms Hawe and Mr Hawe-Wilson had started a relationship in June when the teenager moved up from Whanganui. But the jury rejected the notion that Tu did not know right from wrong when he killed Mr Hawe-Wilson. She woke with him allegedly trying to pull down her jeans and chased him out of the room while yelling for Mr Hawe-Wilson to help. Jiaxin "Max" Tu, 36, has been on trial before the High Court at Auckland for the last two and a half weeks accused of the murder 19-year-old Shane Paul Hawe-Wilson on July 1, 2015. But in the background was Tu's "unhealthy interest" in Ms Hawe, which stretched back to 2011 when she was 12 years old and they lived next door to each other in Panmure.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 16, 2016 05:15 UTC