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Kane Wayman homicide: Fourth person in court charged with Christchurch murder
3 Jan, 2021 07:07 PM
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Anna Leask is a senior crime and justice reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask
A 31-year-old man has appeared in the Christchurch District Court this morning charged with the murder of Kane Wayman on New Year s Day.
He is the fourth person to face charged in connection to Wayman s violent death.
And police say more people could be put before the courts as the investigation into the alleged New Year murder continues.
Wayman was dropped off at Christchurch Hospital with critical injuries on January 1.
On Sunday night, police said they had arrested a 31-year-old man and charged him with murder. The man was granted interim name suppression when he appeared in the Christchurch District Court on Monday.
Jon Hicks
Police investigating the death of a man raided the South Island headquarters of the Mongols MC bikie gang on Friday. He did not enter a plea and was remanded in custody to appear in court again on February 4. A 41-year-old man, believed to be linked to the Mongols, was arrested on Saturday in Southland and charged with Wayman’s murder. He appeared in the Invercargill District Court on Monday, granted interim name suppression, and remanded in custody to appear in the High Court at Christchurch via audio-visual link on February 4.