A Napier woman convicted of murdering her long-term partner is back in prison for hiding her new relationship from her probation officer.
Jacqueline Elaine Wihongi was found guilty of stabbing her partner of 17 years to death with a steak knife in 2010. She is serving a sentence of 12 years' imprisonment.
She is one of only three murderers in New Zealand not given a life sentence.
She was released on parole on May, 2017, but was recalled in July, 2018, because she had entered into a relationship without advising her probation officer and had failed to attend a number of appointments with a psychiatrist, the parole board revealed in a recent decision.
"She told us that [the lack of contact] was due as much to embarrassment as well as anything else as she had a good relationship with her probation officer," the decision said.