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      Home > News > National > Lower North Island

    A conviction's been overturned for a former Napier City councillor found guilty of drowning his wife in a Canadian lake ...and he may go to trial for a third time

    A conviction's been overturned for a former Napier City councillor found guilty of drowning his wife in a Canadian lake ...and he may go to trial for a third time


    Kiwi Peter Beckett was found guilty of killing Laura Letts-Beckett in a second trial in 2017 - after a hung jury in the first.

    Canadian news website, Castanet, is reporting the British Colombia Court of Appeal found mistakes by the presiding justice and Crown prosecutors in the second trial.

    The elementary school teacher died more than 10 years ago while the couple were fishing in small inflatable boat, northeast of Vancouver.

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     Other Lower North Island News
     10 May: 
     07 May: Smoke from an out of control scrub fire is causing diversions on State Highway 50 in Hawke's Bay
     07 May: A coup for the country's national hockey representatives with the announcement of a four-test men's and women's trans-Tasman tournament in Palmerston North, starting May 27
     03 May: A person has died in a house fire at Queen St in Waihi, north of Tauranga this morning
     26 Apr: On-demand public transport could be coming to Hawke's Bay
     23 Apr: A man's been charged with murder after an inmate died in Manawatu prison earlier this year
     23 Apr: Armed police are currently responding to an incident in the Napier suburb of Maraenui
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