Dunedin teacher jailed for 'brutal, frenzied' murder of partner
A Dunedin teacher who stabbed her partner to death in the bath has been jailed for at least eleven years. Carole Coade, 62, pleaded guilty to the murder of 58-year-old film-maker Mark Henry Willis in August and today, before the High Court at Dunedin, Justice Lisa Preston jailed her for life. The victim’s family called the murder premeditated, a notion that was supported by Crown prosecutor Richard Smith who said the homicide exhibited a “high level of brutality, cruelty and callousness”. Smith