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The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeals of a man who murdered his wife with a knife, meat cleaver and a claw hammer.
Zeshen Zhou was found guilty of murdering Shunlian Huang, 24, by bashing her and stabbing her 76 times in their Papatoetoe home in September 2005.
In the High Court at Auckland last October, Justice Judith Potter jailed Zhou, a New Zealand resident, for life, with a minimum term of 17 years in jail.
In the Court of Appeal's decision, Justice Terence Arnold said Zhou's grounds for his appeal against conviction and sentence were that during his trial, he had sought to rely on the partial defence of provocation - essentially that his wife had told him she was in love with somebody else.
Justice Potter had ruled that on the evidence before the court, provocation could not be put to the jury. She indicated she would reassess that if Zhou gave evidence. He did not give evidence.
- NZPA
