A Christchurch woman isolating with Covid was battered to death with a hockey stick by her boarder and sometime lover - after she gave him notice to leave
A Christchurch woman isolating with Covid was battered to death with a hockey stick by her boarder and sometime lover - after she gave him notice to leave
12 July 2022
64-year-old Valerie Heaney was found dead in the hallway of her Bromley home in April.
Today, 43-year-old Elliot Ajay Prakash has pleaded guilty to murder.
Police originally treated Heaney's death as "unexplained" but launched a homicide inquiry after an autopsy.
Prakash will be sentenced on September 9.
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