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Offender Databases Michael Preston

Michael Dexter Preston

Alias

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Offences

Murder of a New Plymouth man by stabbing in October 1991

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

Kevin Moore
Colin Griffiths

Gang affiliations

Black Power

Age

Born 1951

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to life imprisonment in December 1998
Eligible for parole from December 2008

Background
NZ Herald story here
From the Evening Post 10/12/1998
In New Plymouth High Court former New Plymouth Black Power president Michael Dexter Preston was last night found guilty of the murder of Mongrel Mob member Robert Raymond Jillings on October 30, 1991. Justice Randerson sentenced Preston , 42, to life in prison.

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