A man has pleaded guilty to two charges of manslaughter
stemming from a horror crash in 2011.
Hetaraka Hikurangi Reihana changed his earlier not guilty
plea to the charges this morning at the Hamilton District
Court.
The charges stem from a Christmas Day car accident in which
teenage sisters Merepeka and Brooklyn Morehu Clark were
killed.
The plea came today as both the Crown and defence were about
to sum up their cases.
Reihana expressed his "profound regret" at the deaths of his
two cousins.
He is to be sentenced at the Hamilton High Court on May 31.
Reihana's two co-accused, the girls' mother Phillippa
Vanessa Morehu and Haki Tetuere Davey, have maintained their
not guilty pleas.
The defence for both co-accused is about to summarise.
- James Ihaka of the NZ Herald
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