A woman whose 2010 conviction for the murder of Whanganui man Paul Kumeroa was overturned has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Mr Kumeroa died in Cross St, Wanganui, on September 23, 2008 after being attacked by a group of people.
Jamie Ngahuia Ahsin made the plea in the High Court at Wellington via video link before Justice Dobson this morning. She received a further three years and nine months in prison, starting today.
She admitted the charge of manslaughter after the Supreme Court last year quashed her murder conviction and ordered a retrial.
Mr Kumeroa's mother and sister read victim impact statements at the sentencing, surrounded by about four other family members.
Mother Caroline Kumeroa told the court: "To the people who killed my son Paul, all I can say to you is that I will hate you forever".
Sister Victoria said: "We will never forget walking into that hospital and seeing our big brother lying there, watching him fighting for his life and him slipping away from us ... It's impossible to remove the memory of Paul's little boy laying on Paul's chest in the hospital telling his dad to wake up."
Ahsin and Raeleen Matewai Noyle Rameka were sentenced in 2010 to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 10 years and six months following the 2009 High Court murder trial.
Two men, Clarke James McCallum and Daniel Craig Rippon, were also convicted of murder.
Ahsin and Rameka appealed against their convictions in 2010. The Supreme Court allowed the appeals in October last year and retrials were ordered.
Rameka's case is still scheduled for retrial.
- The Wanganui Chronicle
