New Zealand man Tamate Heke is expected to be sentenced today after being found guilty of unlawful striking causing the death of a fellow motorist on a Brisbane motorway just over two years ago. A Brisbane Supreme Court jury yesterday acquitted Heke of the manslaughter of Shane Merrigan, 50, on December 1, 2015. But the jury took three and a-half hours to find him guilty of unlawfully striking Mr Merrigan, who fell backwards on to the path of a garbage truck on the Gateway Motorway. He told police Mr Merrigan came at him, pushed and punched him, before he retaliated, but "didn't mean it". Mr Merrigan's family is set to make a statement to the media after the sentence is delivered by Justice Peter Applegarth.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 22, 2018 21:00 UTC