A man charged with the murder of 2-year-old girl Arnica Savage has this morning pleaded not guilty.
The man, 32, appeared in the High Court at Rotorua charged with murdering the child at Te Mahoe in the Eastern Bay of Plenty on Sunday night.
The man, wearing a white prison boiler suit and clutching a blue book, entered the plea through his lawyer, Gene Tomlinson.
About 20 people were in the public gallery.
Justice Graham Lang remanded the man in custody to reappear by audio visual link for a case review hearing on September 5. The trial will start on March 18 next year.
