"You don't convict a young man of murder simply because you don't like the language he used. She told the jury during her closing address this afternoon that the Crown case simply lacked logic. "When Vincent Skeen was 16 years old he picked up a bottle and he hit another boy with it. A teenager accused of killing a rugby league star did not mean to kill the victim and was probably "swinging out blindly" with a broken bottle, his lawyer says. Defence lawyer Lorraine Smith said her client accepted what he did was wrong.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 15, 2016 01:41 UTC