High profile killer Dean Wickliffe guilty has been convicted
of drugs and weapon charges.
A jury at Tauranga District Court took less than three hours
last week to find life parolee Wickliffe, 61, guilty of one
count of possession for supply of the controlled drug
1,4-butanediol, commonly known as One4B, after a three-day
jury trial finished on Friday.
A bottle containing 250ml of the drug, also known as GBH and
Fantasy G, was found in Wickliffe's Maketu home during armed
police raid in March 2008.
At a separate court appearance last month, Wickliffe pleaded
guilty to the unlawful possession of a loaded .45 Colt
revolver which was also found at his house during the raid.
Wickliffe has spent 30 years behind bars. In 1972 he was
convicted of murdering Wellington jeweller Paul Miet during
an armed robbery, but the charge was reduced to manslaughter
12 years later at retrial.
He was paroled in 1987, but reoffended and was recalled to
prison.
Released in 1995, he was later found guilty of murdering Bay
of Plenty man Richard Bluett, but that conviction was quashed
in 1998 and he was acquitted on retrial.
He has been remanded for sentence.
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