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The man who murdered policeman Matthew Hunt and tried to kill his partner is due to be sentenced this morning.

The man who murdered police officer Matthew Hunt and tried to kill his partner has been jailed for life - with a minimum non parole period of 27 years.

Eli Epiha. Photo: RNZ / Nick Monro Epiha had already admitted the murder of Hunt and reckless driving causing injury. Meanwhile, the accused getaway driver Natalie Bracken has been found guilty helping Epiha avoid arrest. In the High Court at Auckland, witnesses and experts have detailed the shooting and its aftermath. Here's how it happened: 19 June, 2020 "We're being shot at." Those were some of Matthew Hunt's final words, uttered into his police radio as he stepped out of a car. He had just seen 10 shots fired at his colleague David Goldfinch. The next four bullets would take the young co...

Earlier on Tuesday, Justice Geoffrey Venning gave the jury a majority direction and a Papadopoulos direction, which encourages jurors to persevere with their deliberations and for each juror to demonstrate a willingness to change their view after having carefully listened to the views of others. Epiha’s getaway driver, Natalie Bracken, was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. She told police at the time she felt threatened and had driven Epiha away after he pointed a gun at her. Stuff The scene of the fatal shooting of Co...

TVNZ POOL/SUPPLIED Constable David Goldfinch describes how the shooter came after him with a gun and how he believed he would die. He then got out of the car, shot Hunt dead and fired numerous times at Goldfinch before leaving in a car driven by Bracken. On Friday, Shane Conza told the court how Epiha and a woman, who he now knows to be Bracken, arrived at his Taupaki property shortly before midday. Conza and Epiha had been friends for about six years. “He wanted me to drive him somewhere,” Conza said. Conza took some of Epiha’s belongings out of the Mazda that Bracken h...