Closing arguments started on the Christchurch Excessive Court docket on Monday within the second trial of David Hawken and Rebecca Wright-Meldrum in entrance of Justice Rachel Cunningham, for the homicide of the Christchurch girl on 17 August, 1995.
Jeremy Powell confessed to Blackmoore’s homicide in 2019 and beforehand appeared as a Crown witness, when he informed the courtroom Hawken provided him and Wright-Meldrum $10,000 for Blackmoore’s homicide.
Blackmoore was bludgeoned and stabbed 39 occasions in her Wainoni house whereas her two-year-old son slept in a close-by room.
Hawken and Wright-Meldrum have pleaded not responsible to prices of murdering Blackmoore.
The primary trial was deserted in Could after after new materials got here at hand that legal professionals wanted time to evaluate.
The Crown argues that Hawken organized for Powell and Wright-Meldrum to homicide Blackmoore with the promise of $10,000.
The defence in the meantime argues that the pair had no motive for the killing.
The jury beforehand heard from Powell who mentioned Hawken additionally threatened to kill his household if he didn’t homicide Blackmoore, and he took the warning severely.
Prosecutor Pip Currie informed the jury Powell was a younger man who was “effectively out of his depth”.
“Perhaps the 49-year-old Jeremy Powell that we see within the witness field would’ve dealt with issues in another way if this had occurred.
“However you must look again and keep in mind this was a younger man.”
Currie later dismissed arguments made by the defence, round Powell’s curiosity within the Dungeons and Dragons board recreation.
“Supposedly, as a result of Jeremy Powell performed Dungeons and Dragons – the board recreation with cube and different individuals – that interprets into him being a sadistic killer.
“I recommend that’s completely far-fetched and ludicrous to make a submission like that.
“There isn’t any evidential basis.”
The Crown cited a number of components throughout closing submissions, together with proof by Blackmoore’s ex-husband William Blackmoore who claimed Hawken threatened to call him because the instigator of her loss of life.
“The proof is overwhelming … completely overwhelming and factors you (the jury) in just one path.”
The defence started its closing arguments on Monday afternoon.