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The family of a young woman murdered by her jealous partner say they are the ones doing a life sentence.
Samuel Moses Samson was found guilty of the murder

A man who murdered the mother of his child has been given a life sentence and is to serve a minimum period of imprisonment of 17 years.

Stuff Samuel Moses Samson is on trial in the High Court at Invercargill for the alleged murder of Azalia Wilson. Samson’s ex-partner, who had name suppression, told the jury on Friday that Samson once beat her until the bedsheets were covered in blood, then pushed her head into the bed, suffocating her. In a second incident, Samson choked her until she blacked out, and she later wet herself on the couch, she claimed. “He said ‘youre only breathing because I let you’,” she told the...

Crown prosecutor Riki Donnelly played a call Samson made to Wilson on October 5, 2019. The jury heard Samson and Wilson discussing whether to end their relationship or to get a house. It appeared the pair agreed to be just friends, but Samson had one request of Wilson. Samson: "...theres only um one thing, thing that I ask of you eh." Wilson: "Yeah?" Wilson: "No Im not going to. Um." Twenty-four recordings on Wilsons laptop were between the pair, ranging from seconds to longer than 37 mi...

A Crown witness in a murder trial in Invercargill described seeing part of a video call where a woman was unmoving and covered in bruises in the background.

She died some time between 1.40am and 3am, after Samson returned to the motel after being at a party and then an Invercargill bar, Thomas said. “This young woman was just beaten to death ... extensive blunt force injuries to head and face, repeated blows,” Thomas told the court. Wilson’s injuries included a brain bleed, fractured eye socket, nose and jaw. “... her face was subject to significant injury. Injuries were consistent with strangling, not just one type of violent action,�...