A man phoned police to tell them he'd killed his estranged wife, then lay in front of an oncoming logging truck waiting to die. On July 12, Bay of Plenty man Michael Edward Douthett pleaded guilty to murdering his wife, Patricia Wallis, after months of pleading not guilty. It was November 26, 2018, when "it all got too much and I shot her", he told the police. He dropped the rifle in the hallway, rang police and said "I have murdered my wife, I shot her". "Upon arriving at the Rotorua Police Station, the defendant saw Constable Allen and told him 'I have just killed my wife'."

Source: Stuff July 17, 2019 02:58 UTC