{"id":179225,"date":"2025-12-12T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179225\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:00:09","slug":"name-suppression-lifts-for-woman-killed-by-southland-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179225\/","title":{"rendered":"Name suppression lifts for woman killed by Southland man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nathan Boulter admitted murdering a woman in Christchurch earlier this year. Photo: Open Justice ...\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/boulter.png\" width=\"377\" height=\"254\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nathan Boulter. File photo<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0possessive stalker who stabbed a Christchurch mother 55 times\u00a0after she broke off their relationship will be sentenced for murder in February.<\/p>\n<p>Southland man Nathan Boulter murdered Chantal McDonald in Parklands in July.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared via audio-visual link at the High Court at Christchurch on Friday morning, where an interim suppression order on McDonald&#8217;s name was lifted.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were in a brief relationship before he harassed and stalked her.<\/p>\n<p>He hid behind a tree waiting for her to get home with her children before stabbing her.<\/p>\n<p>Boulter had previously stalked other women, including one\u00a0he held hostage for 38 hours on Great Barrier Island.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/581659\/name-suppression-lifts-for-christchurch-murder-victim-chantal-mcdonald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/rnz_banner_rs_060825.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Boulter. File photo A\u00a0possessive stalker who stabbed a Christchurch mother 55 times\u00a0after she broke off their relationship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-179225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}