KEY POINTS:
A woman who fatally stabbed another in a street fight has been jailed for four years and nine months for manslaughter.
Rarua Mere Edwardson, 17, was sentenced today in the High Court in Rotorua.
She had earlier been found not guilty of murdering her former friend Melissa Puhi but guilty of manslaughter. Both were 16-years-old when they fought on a Turangi street late on a Saturday night last May.
They had been consuming alco-pop drinks when they clashed outside a 21st birthday party.
Edwardson stabbed Miss Puhi in the neck with a small wine knife and Miss Puhi bled to death in an ambulance on the way to Taupo Hospital.
- NZPA
