Jinyue Yang who is acting as advocate for convicted meth smuggler Guowei Deng.
He was convicted in New Zealand’s biggest-ever meth trial. But after 13 years in prison, exhaustive attempts at clearing his name and a return to China, Guowei Deng says he lives to prove his innocence. Steve Kilgallon and Lucy Xia report. For Guowei Deng, jail was a particularly solitary experience. For years, he believes he was the only Chinese inmate at Paremoremo, the high-security prison near Auckland. The only English language he had was picked up from fellow convicts he worked alongside in the laundry, factory, and kitchen, where he liked cooking them Chinese food.
Speaking to this newspaper, Jack Whomes brother John Whomes, who lives in Mendlesham, near Stowmarket, said: It could have come out sooner. I know his dad s only been dead four years but it could have come out sooner so we could do something with it. Jack s at the end of his road now. The only thing I would say about it is that it s made all the books and the films look bad. I m glad it has made a mockery of those because some of them were quite damaging. Because all those books and all those films came out as the true story, well obviously the true story has now come out. Let s hope the rest of it does.
Drug dealers Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe were shot dead in Rettendon, Essex, in 1995.
Three years later, Michael Steele, now 76, and Jack Whomes, 57, were convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
But former Essex gangster Steve Nipper Ellis, 55, has claimed the two men are innocent, and that his father, Sid, carried out the murders after threatening his family.
Steve Nipper Ellis claims his father Sid called to say he had carried shot Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe dead in Rettendon, Essex, in 1995
According to The Sun, Ellis served time behind bars with Tate, but later fell out with the gang after a comment was made about Tucker s mistress.