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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.

    © 2025 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

     Other Lower North Island News
     04 Jul: A pedestrian appears to be badly hurt after a serious crash involving a car near Feilding just before 8am
     02 Jul: Police have charged 12 more people - over a large dangerous boy racer meet in Levin, over King's Birthday weekend
     01 Jul: A scene guard's at a Foxton Beach home where a six-month-old baby was found critically injured on Sunday morning
     29 Jun: A person has died in a serious single vehicle crash in Central Hawkes Bay's Waipukurau
     27 Jun: A 27-year-old woman's charged with unlawfully taking a motor vehicle after allegedly stealing a courier van on Napier's Station Street this morning
     27 Jun: Hastings' water-park Splash Planet is going to test itself as just a park after suffering financially last summer
     21 Jun: A well-known hoarders home in Hastings is smouldering, after an inferno overnight
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     Today's News

    		 Entertainment:
    Liam Gallagher has no desire to perform on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage 11:36

     National:
    NZ will soon have no real interisland rail-ferry link – why are we so bad at infrastructure planning? 11:17

     Cricket:
    England finishes day two of second Test at 3-77, India scores 587 in first innings 11:17

     Politics:
    The Pasifika Medical Association continues to refute allegations of impropriety, over its funding of Moana Pasifika 11:07

     Entertainment:
    Jake Paul wants the "challenge" of fighting Anthony Joshua 11:06

     Environment:
    More weather warnings today for the upper South Island - with a Heavy Rain Watch in effect until 2pm 10:47

     Politics:
    A West Coast Tasman MP wants a 'mini-version' of the Government's fast-track system, to speed up consent processing 10:47

     Entertainment:
    Olivia Rodrigo expressed her "love" for England as she closed the Glastonbury Festival on Sunday 10:36

     Cricket:
    Australia have reached 286 all out at stumps on the opening day of the second cricket test against the West Indies in Grenada after choosing to bat 10:07

     National:
    Queen Hatshepsut’s statues were destroyed in ancient Egypt – new study challenges the revenge theory 10:07

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