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Offender Databases Luke Needham

Luke Emmett Needham

Alias

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Offences

Murder of Robert James Te Rure in Napier in October 1993

Victims

Robert James Te Rure

Offender Affiliations

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1967

Current Location

At large

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to life imprisonment in June 1994
Released December 2004

Background
NZ Herald story Saturday the 16th July 1994
"Appearing before Justice McGechan in the High Court at Napier was Dean Trevor Mellsop, aged 25, of Napier who had previously been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. The jury found his co-accused Luke Emmett Needham, aged 27, guilty of murder. The charges followed the death of 29 year old Robert James Te Rure who was shot in the chest in a Napier street on October 30."

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