Crime / Law

Man sentenced for murdering girlfriend

18:16 pm on 13 August 2021

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A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death and left her body in a burning car in south Auckland has been jailed for at least 12 years.

Palmer Marsters has been sentenced to life imprisonment after earlier pleading guilty to murdering 23-year-old Chontel Wiki-O'Brien in November last year.

Marsters was on bail at the time - and wasn't supposed to be in contact with Ms Wiki-O'Brien - after an earlier violent altercation.

Our reporter Sarah Robson was in the High Court at Auckland.