Listen to case #002 - Teina Pora's Wrongful Conviction
On Monday 23 March, 1992, Susan Burdett was raped and beaten to death with a softball bat.
What followed would become one of this country's most prominent miscarriages of justice.
Susan Burdett was brutally murdered in 1992 Photo: RNZ / YouTube
Teina Pora was convicted of Burdett's rape and murder in 1994, found guilty again at a retrial in 2000, but eventually the convictions were quashed by the Privy Council in 2004.
In 2020, prolific rapist Malcolm Rewa was found guilty of the crime.
Investigative Journalist Eugene Bingham spent four years investigating the case and describes how a man spent more than 20-years of his life in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
Listen to episode #002 here
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