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A man has been committed for trial for the manslaughter of his former fiancee whose body was snatched from a funeral home in a family dispute
Darryl Cox, 29, is accused of injecting Tina Marshall with morphine from which she died.
He also faced charges of producing and using morphine and theft when he appeared in Masterton District Court yesterday.
His lawyer told the court Cox entered not guilty pleas and he was remanded for a callover in the High Court in Wellington on August 25.
Mother-of-two Ms Marshall, from Carterton, died from a suspected drugs overdose in last December.
Her body was later taken from a Lower Hutt funeral home by her estranged father and interred in Ruatoria.
Her body was later exhumed and returned to her maternal family.
- NZPA
