Dartelle Alder, who murdered Wellington woman Margaret Baxter in 2001, has made progress in prison and is on course to be released, but maintains he did not deliberately run Baxter down. Alder killed Baxter by smashing a terracotta tile on her head. He did not know what he had hit, he got out of the car and then heard the deceased,” the Parole Board report stated. Supplied Margaret Baxter was jogging in Hawke’s Bay when she was run down and killed. The Parole Board said Alder had done well with his rehabilitation and had a good knowledge of his high-risk situations and how he would deal with them.

Source: Stuff March 07, 2021 20:53 UTC