A doctor accused of murdering a Dunedin teenager has failed in a bid to have his trial heard outside the southern city.
Venod Skantha, 30, is charged with the murder of 16-year-old Amber-Rose Rush, who was found dead in her Corstorphine home on February 2.
Skantha - then a doctor at Dunedin Hospital - was charged days later and has pleaded not guilty to that as well as a count of indecent assault and four of threatening to kill.
He applied for a change in trial venue with his lawyer, Jonathan Eaton QC, saying it needed to be "away from Dunedin".
![Amber-Rose Rush, right, and her mother Lisa Ann. Phot / Supplied](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/BXZDXWBI4PG7WGPMPSKIN6LMDA.jpg?auth=8059403decc0b871ef16eb7ae28d0223c6d344b56e572c1502225b5886702c19&width=16&height=9&quality=70&smart=true)