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The Jack Nicholas murder trial, originally scheduled to take up to eight weeks, has been adjourned for a third consecutive day, with a juror unavailable today because of illness.
The trial, in which Haumoana man Murray Kenneth Foreman, 51, denies being the person who shot 71-year-old Mr Nicholas dead on a remote Kaweka Ranges foothills farm northwest of Napier almost four years ago, was delayed for five days at the start on April 7, for pre-trial matters to be discussed in chambers.
On Tuesday, the trial was adjourned because of a need for the prosecution to reschedule the last half of its 90 witnesses, and the court was unable to resume yesterday afternoon because of the juror illness, a situation which continued today.
- NZPA
