Ryan said Justice Venning's warning to the witness that he had the right not to say anything which could incriminate himself meant the jury was not able to observe him answer. He argued the witness, whose name and other details have been suppressed by the court, and who was in a sexual relationship with Susan Burdett, had motive to kill her. His lawyer, Mark Ryan, told the court Rewa failed to get a fair hearing - saying one witness did not answer questions put to him, and that Rewa's former counsel did not do his job properly. He is serving a sentence of preventive detention with a minimum non-parole period of 22 years for rape and other offending against 25 women. Rewa watched today's hearing via an audio-visual link from prison. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019, after a jury found him guilty of bludgeoning Susan Burdett to death in her Auckland home in 1992.īefore that, Teina Pora spent more than 20 years in prison for the crime. Malcolm Rewa today fought for a retrial in the Wellington Court of Appeal. The man most recently convicted of a murder that led to one of New Zealand's biggest miscarriages of justice wants his fourth trial over the matter. Malcolm Rewa is fighting for a retrial of his murder conviction of Susan Burdett (File photo).
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