NZ Herald
May 21 2008; 12:35
Gwaze murder trial jury out
NZPA
The jury in the trial
of George Evans Gwaze on charges of the sexual violation and murder of his
niece Charlene Makaza has retired to consider its verdicts.
It went out at
11.20am, after a summing up by Justice Lester Chisholm that begun at 9.30am
today.
The crown says the
10-year-old girl, who lived as part of 54-year-old Gwaze's household, died of
suffocation after a sex attack, but the defence says she died of an
overwhelming infection associated with congenital HIV, a condition she had been
born with.