The murder trial of Dunedin man Clayton Weatherston, accused of killing his girlfriend by stabbing her 216 times, has been adjourned until June after a Crown request.
The case was moved from Dunedin to Christchurch in February, after an application by defence counsel Judith Ablett-Kerr, QC, but the reasons for the move were suppressed.
The trial was set to begin on May 25 at the High Court at Dunedin.
Weatherston's girlfriend Sophie Elliott was a 22-year-old Otago University student who was stabbed to death in Dunedin on January 9 last year.
She suffered 216 stab wounds when she was allegedly attacked at the family's home in Ravensbourne.
Weatherston was her former boyfriend as well as her economics tutor.
He was ordered to stand trial after a depositions hearing midway through last year at which 17 witnesses gave evidence.
- NZPA
Stabbing murder trial adjourned until June
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