A former Commonwealth Games athlete\u00a0has denied murdering\u00a0a Clutha vet\u00a0and can now be named\u00a0as her partner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Malcolm Boyd Duff, 65\u00a0\u2013\u00a0who\u00a0represented\u00a0New Zealand at the Melbourne games in 2006 –\u00a0had his case called before the High Court at Dunedin this morning\u00a0while he\u00a0remained\u00a0in hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was charged with the murder of\u00a0his partner\u00a0Jillian Sherie Clark after she was found dead at\u00a0their\u00a0Crichton home\u00a0on\u00a0January 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Counsel Sarah Saunderson-Warner entered a not-guilty plea on her client\u2019s\u00a0behalf.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Duff\u2019s identity was subject to a suppression order since\u00a0he was\u00a0charged\u00a0but\u00a0Ms\u00a0Saunderson-Warner today said she would not apply for an extension of that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The defendant\u2019s first court hearing was conducted by his hospital bedside earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man did not speak during that\u00a0brief session\u00a0and communicated using a whiteboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Details of his specific injuries and the treatment he had received\u00a0were\u00a0suppressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following Dr Clark\u2019s death, bunches of flowers were laid at the foot of a sign reading “The Country Vet” outside her home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her family\u00a0described her as \u201c[an]\u00a0unfailingly\u00a0generous, big-hearted person, who always had a smile on her face”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the Commonwealth Games in 2006,\u00a0Duff\u00a0competed in\u00a0Skeet shooting,\u00a0singles\u00a0and doubles, where he placed tenth and seventh overall. \u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u00a0will appear again in court\u00a0in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Commonwealth Games athlete\u00a0has denied murdering\u00a0a Clutha vet\u00a0and can now be named\u00a0as her partner.\u00a0 Malcolm Boyd Duff,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-345685","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\/345685","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=345685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}