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Natalie Bracken.
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Natalie Bracken is on trial alongside Eli Epiha at the High Court at Auckland, where she denies a charge of accessory after the fact of murder.
Epiha admits one charge of reckless driving causing injury and one charge of murder, but denies the attempted murder of Hunt s colleague David Goldfinch.
In a police interview played to the jury this morning from the day after the shooting last June, Bracken told Detective Sergeant Ashley Matthews she did not know Epiha although his face looked familiar.
She said she was having a cigarette at a house next door to her ex-boyfriend s on Reynella Drive when she heard a crash and ran across the road to help an injured bystander.
The pair are on trial at the High Court at Auckland. On the day of the shooting, a dark purple Toyota, driven by Epiha, caught the two constables’ attention and was flagged in the police national intelligence system.
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Constable David Goldfinch describes how the shooter came after him with a gun and how he believed he would die. Constable Goldfinch previously told the court the pair had been on road policing duties with their car stationed on Triangle Rd, in Massey, when Epiha’s “erratic” driving caught his attention, before they caught up with him on Reynella Dr having crashed into a vehicle injuring a man.