{"id":548969,"date":"2026-07-29T04:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548969\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:25:08","slug":"man-admits-stabbing-murder-of-ex-partner-in-auckland-central-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548969\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits stabbing murder of ex-partner in Auckland Central apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

He then took a knife with a 21cm blade from the kitchen.<\/p>\n

The woman told an older child to call police and pleaded with the defendant to stop, court documents state. <\/p>\n

A younger child went into his mother\u2019s arms, and the defendant ordered the victim to let the child go. <\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone, help, help, help!,\u201d the victim yelled out the window at the prompting of her tormentor. <\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice investigate the scene of a fatal stabbing inside an Auckland Central apartment. Photo \/ Dean Purcell<\/p>\n

However, the defendant dragged her back into the living room and stabbed her twice as she lay on her back. <\/p>\n

The defendant left the apartment about 6pm with the children, and went to a police station to report what had happened at 7.36pm. He wasn\u2019t sure if the victim was alive, he told officers.<\/p>\n

Police got to the apartment 13 minutes later, where the woman was found dead. <\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice at the apartments on Day St, Auckland, where a woman was found dead. Photo \/ Dean Purcell<\/p>\n

A trial had previously been set for next February. <\/p>\n

Justice Mathew Downs, who oversaw today\u2019s arraignment, ordered a sentencing hearing to take place in October. Suppression applications will be decided at that hearing. <\/p>\n

Craig Kapitan<\/a> is an Auckland-based journalist covering courts and justice. He joined the Herald in 2021 and has reported on courts since 2002 in three newsrooms in the US and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

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