Justice Walker<\/a> clarified the question for them, which was split into two parts.<\/p>\n\u201cEvidently, you can\u2019t look inside her head at that critical moment to see what she\u2019s thinking. That is why you must draw inferences from facts you find proven,\u201d Justice Walker said.<\/p>\n
The question was \u201cAre you sure that when Ms Thompson stabbed Mr Tahere in the neck she intended to kill him?\u201d<\/p>\n
That question was followed by an alternative question: \u201cAre you sure that when Ms Thompson stabbed Mr Tahere in the neck she intended to cause him bodily injury that was more than minor in nature?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you answer yes to 5a or all of the parts of 5b, you must find Ms Thompson guilty of murder,\u201d Justice Walker said to the jury.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you answer no to 5a and to any of the parts of 5b, you must find her not guilty of murder and guilty of manslaughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not enough to say \u2018she ought to have known.\u2019<\/p>\n
You must be sure that she did know and chose to carry on in the face of that knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n
The jury returned its unanimous guilty verdict about 12.30pm today,<\/p>\n
Jurors were thanked for their service before being dismissed. <\/p>\n
\u201cDetermination of guilt is a significant responsibility; it is not easy to sit in judgment,\u201d Justice Walker told them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope you can leave this case behind you and return to your families and be proud of the role you have [played].\u201d<\/p>\n
Justice Walker acknowledged the respectful way the wh\u0101nau had conducted themselves throughout the trial, and remanded Thompson in custody ahead of her sentencing in September.<\/p>\n
She directed restorative justice to take place, and a final karakia was then conducted by members of Thompson and Tahere\u2019s wh\u0101nau.<\/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":"The jury heard evidence that Tahere, 22, of West Auckland, had been in an on-and-off relationship with Kait\u0101ia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[58251,35839,85818,12517,15360,111,43,139,69,1118,261233,54946,1869],"class_list":["post-529055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-arthur","tag-audrey","tag-convicts","tag-jury","tag-murdering","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-tahere","tag-thompson","tag-whangrei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529055","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=529055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}