A Tauranga man has been charged with murdering his father.
The Crown alleges William Church, aged 22 at the time, stabbed his father Michael Steven Church with a butcher’s knife at a Pāpāmoa East home on September 22, 2018.
Church, now aged 27, appeared in the High Court at Tauranga on Wednesday.
Church’s lawyer David Bates told Justice Neil Campbell he was still waiting for the previous legal counsel’s file so he could “get up to speed” with this prosecution case and asked for more time before his client entered a plea.
Bates also urged Justice Campbell to grant Church bail.