A woman whose hand was severed in a samurai sword attack by Antonie Dixon during a P-fuelled rampage six years ago is to stand trial on charges relating to the same drug.
Renee Gunbie's trial in the Auckland District Court on two charges of possessing equipment or material with intent to produce methamphetamine is set down for next month, the Sunday News reported yesterday.
The offences are alleged to have occurred at Helensville, in West Auckland, in November 2006.
Dixon died at Auckland's Paremoremo Prison last month.
He was convicted in 2005 of charges that included murder, grievous bodily harm, shooting at police and kidnapping during a night of violence in January 2003.
He was alleged to have attacked Gunbie, also known as Renee Hills, and Simonne Butler with a samurai sword at Pipiroa, near Thames, and then to have driven to Auckland where he shot dead a stranger, James Te Aute.
The Court of Appeal quashed the convictions, ruling the trial judge's summing up contained errors of law.
Last August, after a second trial in the High Court at Auckland, Dixon was found guilty of the eight charges he faced.
He was in prison awaiting re-sentencing when he died.
- NZPA
Victim of P-fuelled attack to appear on drug charges
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