The Tauranga gang leader accused of killing his ex-girlfriend confessed to the murder on three occasions before trying to persuade others to take the blame for him, the High Court was told.
Filthy Few president James Henry Wilson, aged 41, has denied shooting sex worker Jo-Anne Maree Van Duyvenbooden in her Welcome Bay home between August 16 and 18 last year.
Crown prosecutor Greg Hollister-Jones, who opened the crown case before Justice Noel Anderson in the High Court at Rotorua yesterday, said Wilson told associates on three separate occasions that he had shot Ms Van Duyvenbooden, whom he had hated since their short relationship ended in March last year.
The Crown alleges that Wilson drove to Ms Van Duyvenbooden's flat after learning that she was alone there, and shot her three times before dragging her body outside and down a step bank.
He dumped her under some trees.
The court was then told how Wilson tried to dispose of evidence by washing Ms Van Duyvenbooden's bedroom down with a garden hose, removing and burning the plaster cast he was wearing on his left hand and sending his car out of town.
Mr Hollister-Jones said that after Wilson was arrested in September, he asked a prospective member of the Filthy Few to "take the rap" for him.
The man, who has interim name suppression, agreed to do so but then backed out, forcing Wilson to ask a fellow Waikeria Prison inmate if he would confess instead.
The defendant told the inmate, who occupied the next cell, to copy a written confession and map of the scene that Wilson passed to him through a heating pipe.
"That statement contained considerable and accurate detail about the shooting of the deceased that ... only the killer would know," Mr Hollister-Jones said.
Other evidence that would be presented during the three-week trial included a fibre from Wilson's plaster cast found near Ms Van Duyvenbooden's body, and mucus found outside her bedroom door that was 200 million times more likely to have come from Wilson than any other New Zealand male.
A .22 calibre cartridge case found on Ms Van Duyvenbooden's bedroom floor matched another which police believe came from Wilson's prized .22 semi-automatic pistol.
However, defence lawyer Denise Clark, who made a brief statement, said Wilson emphatically denied any involvement in the murder.
She said Ms Van Duyvenbooden's partner, David Barnett, was the real killer and Wilson, who was at home the night of the shooting, was the victim of a conspiracy by others.
Murder accused desperate to shift blame, court told
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