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Report from RNZ
Three people charged in relation to the murder of a man in the Wellington suburb of Karori have today pleaded not guilty in the High Court in Wellington.
Rau Tongia was killed on Percy Dyett Drive in the early hours of 20 December.
Breeze Hunt-Weston, 27, pleaded not guilty to murder and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Tain Tararo, 19, pleaded not guilty to being an accessory to murder after the fact.
Louise Kelly Hume pleaded not guilty to murder.
Justice Cook set the trial date for 2 May.
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Rau Tongia, 33, was shot and killed in December. “Police are also continuing to investigate whether there were others who assisted the primary offender on the night,” he said. Further arrests and charges have not been ruled out. Previously, police have made five public appeals for information relating to various parts of the investigation. Shayde Weston has been charged with Tongia s murder, using a firearm, and assaulting him with a kitchen knife. A woman, 35, whose name is currently suppressed, was charged with being party to Tongia’s murder by driving Weston to commit the crime. A third woman, Phoenix Chartarn Kahurangi Colvin, 20, was charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder by concealing a firearm.