"Then the bottle went into Luke's throat." "Vincent would have been hard pressed to hit Luke in the neck on purpose. "Mr Skeen stepped into what was supposed to be a one-on-one fight with Luke's friend and another young man," he told the jury. Vincent Angene Skeen, 18, is on trial before the High Court at Auckland accused of the murder of 17-year-old Luke Tipene on November 1, 2014. "Then I heard the beer bottle smash on the concrete," Togiavalu said through tears.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 11, 2016 04:41 UTC