Waimamaku<\/a>. The Crown alleges he was hit by Brady in his ute sometime between 7.57 and 8.07am.<\/p>\nTwo concrete workers heading to a job gave evidence that they saw an arm waving from the ditch and stopped to help.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was in pain but still talking,\u201d one told the court.<\/p>\n
Both men said they tried to get him up, but he was in too much pain and did not think his injuries were life-threatening.<\/p>\n
When they asked him, \u201cWho did this?\u201d, they both gave evidence that Baldwin said, \u201cThe Mongrel Mob.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought that was a bit out of it, because he was all dressed in red,\u201d Whakaaro Riwhi-Witehira told the court.<\/p>\n
Under pressure to meet a waiting concrete truck, they had to leave, but made calls to get emergency services to the site.<\/p>\n
\u2018My body hurts\u2019<\/p>\n
After they left, Ashley Davenport drove past and saw Baldwin waving from the ditch.<\/p>\n
Davenport stopped and called emergency services at 8.41am, but also had to leave to drop his child to k\u014dhanga.<\/p>\n
He said he called emergency services at least four times, but when he drove back at 9.30am, Baldwin was still there with no assistance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I asked if he was all good, he said, \u2018My body hurts.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
When Davenport asked him where it hurt, Brady responded, \u201cEverywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The two men were locals of the small town of Waimamaku in the Far North. Photo \/ Google.<\/p>\n
Davenport then asked him what happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he was beat up. I asked who did it. That\u2019s when he mentioned Shannon, there was no last name,\u201d Davenport said.<\/p>\n
A fourth local, Nathanial Masters, pulled up around this time and saw people on the phone to emergency services.<\/p>\n
He then noticed the tyre tracks, and gave his evidence about someone hitting the victim with a car.<\/p>\n
Masters also confirmed that, when he asked Baldwin who had injured him, \u201cHe repeated the name \u2018Shannon\u2019 a few more times.\u201d<\/p>\n
Baldwin deteriorated soon afterwards and was pronounced dead at the roadside just after 10am.<\/p>\n
Forensic pathologist Sinead McCarty gave evidence that he died from blunt-force trauma injuries to the pelvis and head.<\/p>\n
His pelvis had fractured into multiple pieces, and the injuries sustained were consistent with a collision with a motor vehicle, she said.<\/p>\n
The trial continues before Justice Michele Wilkinson-Smith.<\/p>\n
Shannon Pitman is a Whang\u0101rei-based reporter for Open Justice covering courts in the Te Tai Tokerau region. She is of Ng\u0101puhi\/ Ng\u0101ti P\u016bkenga descent and has worked in digital media for the past five years. She joined NZME in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baldwin was found in the ditch near Waimamaku, in the Far North, about 8am on August 1, 2024.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1117,15153,61583,83851,13633,65188,634,63701,15211,24392,71,15360,111,43,139,24743,1067,69,1118,5270,28142,1314,4514,162419,18916,102991,54,199385,199386,199387],"class_list":{"0":"post-384136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-accused","9":"tag-arm","10":"tag-baldwin","11":"tag-brady","12":"tag-catching","13":"tag-chilling","14":"tag-death","15":"tag-ditch","16":"tag-drivers","17":"tag-each","18":"tag-from","19":"tag-murdering","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nicholas","24":"tag-northland","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-of","27":"tag-one","28":"tag-quiet","29":"tag-road","30":"tag-same","31":"tag-shannon","32":"tag-sight","33":"tag-slowed","34":"tag-trial","35":"tag-waimamaku","36":"tag-waving","37":"tag-weakly"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384136","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=384136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}