Related Content Rodney Hide: Another 'little' tax - yeah, right Rodney Hide: I would be wishing for a gun Rodney Hide: The downside of courting fameThe test that the Crimes Act provides is not "murderous intent". The Crown then inexplicably downgraded the charge from murder to manslaughter. The downgrade to manslaughter is a disgrace to justice, and a further abuse of a poor little boy. We are angry and horrified at the brutal torturing and killing of little Moko. It's sufficient if "the offender means to cause to the person killed any bodily injury that is known to the offender to be likely to cause death, and is reckless whether death ensues or not".

Source: New Zealand Herald July 02, 2016 16:52 UTC