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Waikato axe death: Rydell Martin jailed for man's 'extremely violent' killing 6 May, 2021 10:05 PM 4 minutes to read Police at the scene of Phillip Macpherson's death in Pukemiro, south-west of Huntly, in March 2019. Photo / Doug Sherring Police at the scene of Phillip Macpherson's death in Pukemiro, south-west of Huntly, in March 2019. Photo / Doug Sherring A man found guilty of killing a man with an axe in rural Waikato has been jailed for six years. Rydell Martin was in March found not guilty of Phillip Macpherson's murder and instead found guilty by a jury of his manslaughter, in a decisi...

A north Waikato man has been found not guilty of murdering a man in Pukemiro in 2019

Justice Mary Peters summarised the case before sending the jury out about 1pm.

Dominico Zapata/Stuff Rydell Martin accepts he’s guilty of the manslaughter of Phillip Morgan in the tiny Waikato settlement of Pukemiro, a court has heard. Was axe murder accused Rydell Martin an angry man delivering potentially fatal axe blows? Or was he merely trying to bring down a big man fighting his cousin in the street? These are the opposing cases of the prosecution and defence in his trial, to explain what happened in the Waikato settlement of Pukemiro the night Phillip Macpherson died. Rydell Tuaupiki Martin, 27, is charged with murdering Macpherson with an axe in a street figh...

Dominico Zapata/Stuff Rydell Tuaupiki Martin, 27, said he used the axe "not to hurt [Phillip Macpherson], just to defuse the problem" of a fight in Joseph Street, Pukemiro . His axe blows struck bone on two occasions, but a man accused of murder says he didn't mean to kill. Rydell Tuaupiki Martin, 27, is facing trial for a murder charge over a death following a street fight in a Waikato township. Martin accepts he delivered the fatal axe blow that severed an artery in Phillip Macpherson's leg, in Pukemiro on March 1, 2019. But he says he's guilty of manslaughter, not murder. Martin, also ...