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Offender Databases Jason Somerville

Jason Paul Somerville

Alias

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Offences

Murder of his wife Rebecca Chamberlain in August 2009 and neighbour Tisha Lowry in September 2008 in Wainoni, Christchurch.
Also admitted to sex with both victims after killing them

Victims

Rebecca Chamberlain
Tisha Lowry

Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1976

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to a minimum 23 years without parole in January 2010
Earliest possible release date September 2032

Background
NZ Herald story here with the sentencing here
This Listener article has a brief summary of this case
September 2008 and August 2009: Tisha Lowry, 28, disappeared in September 2008. Her neighbour Jason Somerville was one of the volunteers who helped with the police search. It was only after Somerville’s wife, Rebecca Chamberlain, 35, disappeared in August 2009 that Lowry’s body was found. It was buried under Somerville’s home alongside his wife.

Somerville had strangled both women then had sex with their bodies before burying them under his Christchurch home.

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