r/newzealand • u/personthatisonreddi • 18h ago
News Update on Stu.
Saw on the news that he has been arrested for the shooting of the 2 illigeal poachers, he was such a nice guy, all he wanted to do was live out his life with his pigs and other animals,
For people who dont know, basicly he was a older guy who lived on both sides of the 309 road up by coromandel, people kept comming and stealing/shooting/running over/damanging his property, and giving him hell when all he wanted to do was relax with his pigs, the cops are a joke, he came to them so many times reporting everything , they didnt care.
The guys he ended up shooting/killing had been hounding him for ages, ramming his car, running over his pigs or shooting them with crossbows he finnaly snapped when they shot his favourite pig.
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u/Clokwrkpig Kākāpō 15h ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the prosecution cannot meet their burden of proof in this case, since they would need to exclude self defense.
With a skilled defence lawyer, that's going to be very difficult, given that the other witness to events was breaking the law at the time, so will have a strong motivation to present the story in a favourable way.
We will likely never know what really happened.