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They were also found guilty of participating in an organised criminal group and wounding Wilkinson s friend Kyle Rowe with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. The jury also found Moananui guilty of kidnapping Wilkinson and Rowe by taking them from Ashhurst to Wilkinson the night they were attacked. But the jury were hung on all charges against Dean Arthur Jennings and Jason David Signal, as well as the kidnapping charges against the Su’a brothers. Majority verdicts were required for all the guilty verdicts. Justice Helen Cull ordered a retrial on the hung charges.
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Police at the Bunnythorpe property where Codi Wilkinson s body was found in September 2019.
Wilkinson and Rowe were allegedly assaulted in Ashhurst in September 2019 before being taken to Bunnythorpe, where Wilkinson’s body was found about two weeks later. The Crown says the defendants attacked the duo with weapons while kicking them out of the Mongrel Mob, taking them to Bunnythorpe to present them to a drug dealer they robbed. The number of defendants and charges mean the jury has to come up with at least 25 different verdicts. That number would get even longer if they find defendants not guilty of murder, as they then would have to consider if defendants were guilty or not of manslaughter.