The Napier parents of a man pushed to his death through a Perth pub window will have to relive the ordeal at his killer's re-trail next month.
Andy Marshall, 29, was talking to a woman in 2011 when Stefan Pahia Schmidt shoved him through a full-length second-storey glass window at Cottesloe's Ocean Beach Hotel.
Mr Schmidt, who admitted pushing Mr Marshall but claimed he didn't mean to kill him, was found guilty of murder in 2012 and jailed for at least 14 years. However, the conviction was overturned on appeal last year, with the Australian Court of Appeal ruling a miscarriage of justice took place because the trial judge did not adequately direct the jury on an essential element of the case.
Mr Schmidt's two-week re-trial would start in the Supreme Court of Western Australia on May 19 and Andy Marshall's parents, Alan and Wendy Marshall, were preparing to leave their Napier home to sit through another court case in Perth.
Mr Marshall told Hawke's Bay Today the increased focus on the injuries that led to his son's death at the re-trial may mean he and his wife won't be able to sit through the entirety of the proceedings.