Twenty-one-year-old Kimberley Schroder was raped and murdered by Paul Tainui, then Paul Russell Wilson, in Hokitika in 1994. Shortly after hearing of Tuxford's murder, Kimberley's father Gary Schroder, died in a suspected suicide. Tainui had tried to kill Kimberley Schroder once before - walking into a local pub with a loaded shotgun and assaulting her. "We don't sleep and get very stressed and depressed [each time there's a hearing]," Nancy Schroder wrote. Parole Board wary of how inmate would handle 'relationship difficulties'The Parole Board's reports described the murder as "sinister and brutal".

Source: New Zealand Herald November 19, 2022 01:21 UTC