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Ernest Richard Parore

Alias

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Offences

Murder of retired Pukehina photographer Peter Nicholas Fenwick in September 1988
Shot the victim twice in the head
Stabbed prison guard Ross Dodds in maximum security at Paremoremo in September 1997

Victims

Peter Nicholas Fenwick

Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1972

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to life imprisonment in March 1989
Sentenced to seven years in February 1998
Parole declined March 2009
Had another hearing February 2010

Background
From the Dominion 21st February 1998
A prisoner who was given a life sentence for murder at the age of 15 has been sentenced to a further seven years' jail for stabbing a prison guard. Ernest Richard Parore was jailed in 1989 for shooting a retired Rotorua man twice in the head. Parore, now aged 25, would have been eligible for parole in March next year. As the new sentence was handed down yesterday, Parore, who stood handcuffed in the dock alongside three prison guards, showed no emotion but closed his eyes briefly.

In North Shore District Court, Judge Graham Hubble said Parore had used a home-made knife to stab the 56-year-old guard in the stomach, staring at him as he did so. Judge Hubble said the knife was made in Paremoremo Prison, and the 30-centimetre blade was sharpened on both sides - clearly classing it as a stabbing device to cause serious wounds or death. Another knife was found in Parore's cell last week. Earlier, Parore pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding the guard with intent to cause grievous bodily harm last September. That charge replaced one of attempted murder. The guard was in hospital for eight days and was unlikely to return to prison duties.

NZ Herald story 18th March 1989
A 16 year old youth found guilty of murdering a Pukehina man last year was sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court at Rotorua yesterday. A jury of seven women and five men deliberated for nearly three hours before returning its verdict, concluding a four day trial which has seen 25 victims, including the accused, give evidence.

"You have been found guilty of deliberately killing a man - who had apparently befriended you - for reasons which only you know," Mr Justice Henry told Ernest Richard Parore, unemployed, of no fixed abode. "There is one sentence prescribed by law and that I must now impose on you," he said, sentencing Parore to life imprisonment.

Parore was charged with the murder of Peter Nicholas Fenwick, a 61-year-old retired photographer, formerly of Rotorua, at his Pukehina home on or about September 15th last year. Mr Fenwick was shot twice in the head with a .22 calibre rifle and his body was buried in a shallow grave at Matata. The court was told the accused confessed to killing Mr Fenwick, whom he said he knew well and called Uncle Peter.

In his evidence, Parore maintained that he had not intended to kill or shoot his "Uncle Peter". The defence counsel, Mr Paul Mabey, said there was no dispute that Mr Fenwick's death was culpable homicide but Parore denied it had been murder, accepting manslaughter. His client had no reason to kill a man who was one of the few people who were important to him. There was no motive at all, Mr Mabey said, and the shooting was an accident.

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