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Offender Databases Kylie Southon

Kylie Dianne Southon

Alias

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Offences

Killed Timaru man Ricky "Boof" Burnard by shooting in April 2005
Also tried to firebomb an Ashburton house in 1989 while the occupants were sleeping

Victims

Ricky Burnard

Offender Affiliations

Anthony Peters
Robert Roulston

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1970

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to seven years in July 2006 with a three year six month non parole period
Unsuccessfully appealed the sentence and conviction in May 2007

Background
Christchurch Press story 29/05/2006

A High Court jury has found a Christchurch man and woman guilty of the manslaughter of former Timaru Road Knights gang leader Ricky "Boof" Burnard. Kylie Dianne Southon, 36, and Anthony Kevin Peters, 32, had been jointly charged with murdering Burnard in April last year. But yesterday, after deliberating for three days, the jury of eight women and four men instead found the pair guilty of the alternative charge of manslaughter. Southon blew her family a kiss and mouthed "I love you" as she left the dock. There was little reaction to the verdicts from the few members of the public at the rear of the court. Family members refused to comment on the verdict. During the four-week trial, the Crown alleged Southon and Peters planned to kill Burnard because he was causing them continuing problems, making threats and growing increasingly violent and erratic from his use of pure methamphetamine, or P.

Little defence evidence was called - 20 minutes worth during the trial - but Southon's lawyer, Pip Hall, successfully argued she had not planned to kill Burnard and was surprised when Peters produced a gun and shot him in the Christchurch suburb of Linwood on April 27 last year. The jurors had heard that Burnard was shot three times - twice at close range - during a confrontation with Southon and Peters on Stanmore Road after an early-morning car chase. Badly wounded, Burnard staggered into a nearby driveway, where he died of his injuries. For Peters, counsel Tim Fournier said the Crown had not proved that Peters was even at the killing scene. A statement to police by Southon implicating him was inadmissible as evidence against him, he said. Justice Lester Chisholm yesterday thanked jurors for the "obvious care" they had taken in reaching their verdicts. He said the intrusion into their private lives during the trial and three nights of seclusion in a city hotel had been beyond what anyone had expected. Southon and Peters were remanded in custody for probation reports to be prepared for sentencing on July 6.

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