Photo: NZMEA Wellington man accused of murdering a woman and sexually offending against her and a child found wounded at the scene can now be named as Joseph William Borton. A homicide investigation was launched in April following the death of a 52-year-old woman at a Lemnos Ave property in Karori. Borton, 30, also faces charges of sexually violating the girl twice and indecently assaulting the woman by removing her underwear. He is also accused of entering a Lemnos Ave property on the day of the alleged killing with a steel mallet, with intent to commit an imprisonable offence. The child has automatic name suppression due to her age and the sexual nature of the charges, and the dead woman has interim name suppression.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 07, 2019 00:56 UTC