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By ALISON HORWOODIn the days that followed, the cellphone of his companion and cohort in Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet copy an Ecstasy importing plan, Terri Robert King, would ring incessantly, but go unanswered.Mr King, nicknamed Tricky, was a big mouth who made it his business to be well known in the criminal underbelly of the capital.After a childhood marred by attention deficit disorder, his adult life involved easy cash and hard drugs. With a failing contracting business and $50,000 in debts, he took to pushing pills and importing Ecstasy from South Africa.The 31 year old disappeared, and more than two months later a hunter stumbled upon his decomposing body lying face up near Powell Hut. He had died instantly after being hit from behind by a single shot from a rifle.Haanstra at first said nothing, but later told police that copy Van cleef arpels clover bracelet the killers had returned overseas. He had been told to keep his mouth shut and he feared for the lives of his family.Later he would tell of running for his life after two Russians jumped out of the bushes on the mountain.Haanstra was arrested in October last year and charged with Mr King's murder.The acquitted man was led away to continue a 3 1/4 year jail sentence for importing Ecstasy in 1999.The crown case was that Haanstra was the last person known to see Mr King alive and owed him $8000.He lured him up the mountain with the promise of a buried Ecstasy cache, and as Mr King began to dig with a fold up shovel, Haanstra shot him in the back of the head.But defence lawyer Donald Stevens said Mr King had wronged people in the seedy world of international drug smuggling Van Cleef and Arpels bracelet replica and many had a far better motive than Haanstra to silence him.The defence case was based on the possibility that Mr King was killed by a drug smuggling syndicate involving three South Africans.Mr King had imported drugs from South Africa, but relations had soured. The night before he disappeared he had been nervous."He said two or three of the South Africans he met were in New Zealand and they were not the type of people you f around with," Dr Stevens told the court.Two of the South Africans, John Goldsmith and Albertus Van Schalkwyk, had been special forces police under the apartheid regime and were "trained killers."They spent a year in prison in New Zealand on Ecstasy importing charges but returned to South Africa after giving evidence.Neither had been in NZ when Mr King disappeared, Dr Stevens said, but with their contacts and skills it was possible they had been conspirators.John Goldsmith's brother, Maynard, arrived in NZ four days before Mr King was shot. Dr Stevens said the value he placed on human life was obvious when evidence was given about his comments "if a kaffir, or black, came onto his property he would shoot him."Maynard Goldsmith gave evidence after the Solicitor General granted him immunity from prosecution for drug charges.
By ALISON HORWOODIn the days that followed, the cellphone of his companion and cohort in Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet copy an Ecstasy importing plan, Terri Robert King, would ring incessantly, but go unanswered.Mr King, nicknamed Tricky, was a big mouth who made it his business to be well known in the criminal underbelly of the capital.After a childhood marred by attention deficit disorder, his adult life involved easy cash and hard drugs. With a failing contracting business and $50,000 in debts, he took to pushing pills and importing Ecstasy from South Africa.The 31 year old disappeared, and more than two months later a hunter stumbled upon his decomposing body lying face up near Powell Hut. He had died instantly after being hit from behind by a single shot from a rifle.Haanstra at first said nothing, but later told police that copy Van cleef arpels clover bracelet the killers had returned overseas. He had been told to keep his mouth shut and he feared for the lives of his family.Later he would tell of running for his life after two Russians jumped out of the bushes on the mountain.Haanstra was arrested in October last year and charged with Mr King's murder.The acquitted man was led away to continue a 3 1/4 year jail sentence for importing Ecstasy in 1999.The crown case was that Haanstra was the last person known to see Mr King alive and owed him $8000.He lured him up the mountain with the promise of a buried Ecstasy cache, and as Mr King began to dig with a fold up shovel, Haanstra shot him in the back of the head.But defence lawyer Donald Stevens said Mr King had wronged people in the seedy world of international drug smuggling Van Cleef and Arpels bracelet replica and many had a far better motive than Haanstra to silence him.The defence case was based on the possibility that Mr King was killed by a drug smuggling syndicate involving three South Africans.Mr King had imported drugs from South Africa, but relations had soured. The night before he disappeared he had been nervous."He said two or three of the South Africans he met were in New Zealand and they were not the type of people you f around with," Dr Stevens told the court.Two of the South Africans, John Goldsmith and Albertus Van Schalkwyk, had been special forces police under the apartheid regime and were "trained killers."They spent a year in prison in New Zealand on Ecstasy importing charges but returned to South Africa after giving evidence.Neither had been in NZ when Mr King disappeared, Dr Stevens said, but with their contacts and skills it was possible they had been conspirators.John Goldsmith's brother, Maynard, arrived in NZ four days before Mr King was shot. Dr Stevens said the value he placed on human life was obvious when evidence was given about his comments "if a kaffir, or black, came onto his property he would shoot him."Maynard Goldsmith gave evidence after the Solicitor General granted him immunity from prosecution for drug charges.
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