Malia Li is on trial for manslaughter at the High Court in Auckland. Photo: NZMEA woman on trial for manslaughter is accused of leaving her elderly husband to die from untreated wounds so infected that his skin became fused with the La-Z-Boy chair where he spent his last days. His skin fell off as ambulance staff pulled him from that chair in the early hours of October 2, 2016. Epenisa died in the same room the couple shared with their two twin daughters who were aged 16 at the time. Li stopped accepting offers from other support care workers to visit the house and agreed to look after her husband on her own, Rhodes said.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 24, 2021 04:40 UTC