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Offender Database Michael Manihera

Michael Anthony Manihera

Alias

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Offences

Murder - stabbed a Wanganui Hotel bottle store manager to death in May 1997.
Also committed an aggravated robbery in April 1997 and one in 1993

Victims

Ian Comrie

Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1975

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to life imprisonment in February 1998 with a minimum 13 year period
The 13 year minimum was later quashed on appeal in June 1998
First parole hearing was May 2007
Has next hearing June 2010

Background
NZ Herald story here
From Otago Daily Times February 1998
A man convicted of the murder of a Wanganui bottle store manager was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment. Michael Anthony Manihera (22) was convicted in the High Court at Wanganui of the murder of Ian Comrie, the 60-year-old Castlecliff Hotel bottle store manager who was stabbed to death at the store last May. He was further convicted on two counts of aggravated robbery.

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