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Offender Database Troy Daysh

Troy Keith Daysh

Alias

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Offences

Murder of 61 year old widow Ngaire Faye Walmsly of Hastings by cutting her throat in April 1996

Victims

Ngaire Walmsly

Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1977

Current Location

At large

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to a ten year life sentence in November 1996
Paroled March 2010

Background
From NZ Herald story 21st November 1996
A 19-year-old man who slashed a widow’s throat with a carving knife changed his plea and was jailed for life yesterday in the High Court at Napier. Troy Keith Daysh, formerly of the Bay of Plenty, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of 61-year-old Ngaire Faye Walmsley, who died at her Hastings home on April 14.

But, after four hours in the witness box, Daysh reserved the plea on advice from counsel and medical specialists, at the end of the third day of the trail before Chief Justice Sir Thomas Eichelbaum and a jury. The crown prosecutor, Mr Russell Collins, sought no minimum parole period and sentence was passed minutes of the plea was changed. During the trail, the Crown said Daysh cut Mrs Walmsley’s throat to stop her from screaming as he tried to steal her car to flee to the South island in a bid to avoid a court appearance in Rotorua the next day.

Defence evidence included revolutions that Daysh had been the sole surviving passenger of a car crash near Te Puke on July 27, 1995, in which a woman and two children died, and that he could not cope with the trauma nor a head injury received in the crash. The Crown’s case had been based on the accused’s own statements and video taped accounts of the events but, in court he often said he was “not sure” about aspects.

Parole Board decision documented here

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