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Vava‘u woman pleads guilty to husband’s death [1]

Nuku'alofa, Tonga

Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 18:45.  Updated on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 09:04.

A woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Vava‘u for running over her husband with her vehicle in Kameli in October last year.

Roma Guttenbeil appeared before Mr Justice Charles Cato on Monday, October 7 in Neiafu and pleaded guilty to the charge. She will be sentenced on November 22, 2013.

The accused was charged after her husband, Michael Guttenbeil died from serious injuries on the day of the accident on October 10, 2012.

The incident occurred during a dispute between the accused husband and another family where a fight broke out on Tu'i Road at Kameli, and the accused was alleged to have driven her Pajero van at a group of men to break up a fight, but in the process ran over her 36-year-old husband.

manslaughter by negligence [2]
Vava'u [3]
Roma Guttenbeil [4]
Mr Justice Charles Cato [5]
From the Courts [6]
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