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Raymond Tonumaalii

Alias

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Offences

Tried to stab Auckland man Sakaria Matamata to death in April 2008

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1977

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to six years six months in November 2009

Background
The Dominion Post, 18th September 2009
A man who stabbed an Auckland father as he supervised his daughter’s 16th birthday party has been found guilty of attempted murder. A jury of nine woman and three men found Raymond Tonumaalii, 32, guilty of the charge at the High Court in Auckland this afternoon. West Auckland man Sakaria Matamata, 42, was stabbed twice in the chest with a stainless steel knife while chaperoning his daughter’s birthday party at his Glen Eden home last April.

On Monday Mr Matamata told the court he learnt why Tonumaalii attacked him after sitting next to him at an earlier depositions hearing at Waitakere District Court. "I wanted to know why he had stabbed me, I wanted him to look me in the eye and know what reason he had to kill me. "My children could have lost their father that day." Mr Matamata said Tonumaalii said he had mistaken Mr Matamata for the man that had beaten him up at the party earlier.

"I said, no mate, I was one of the guys that saved ya." Tonumaalii then apologised to him, Mr Matamata told the court. Crown prosecutor Warren Cathcart said Mr Matamata had been at home "minding his own business" about 2am on April 6 last year when he was attacked with a knife. The stabbing was seen by several teenagers, including Mr Matamata's children, Mr Cathcart said. Mr Matamata said he could remember little of the struggle.

"He had a knife, I was unarmed, I was just doing the best I could to stay alive." Tonumaalii suffered minor injuries in the scuffle. The court was told he confessed to the stabbing when interviewed by a police officer in hospital the next day. He said he had been beaten up at the party earlier and later returned armed with a knife. "I walked up to him and he laughed at me so I stabbed him in the chest. I was calm and collected and ready to take his life," Tonumaalii said to the officer. Tonumaalii had later denied he stabbed Mr Matamata.

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