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Lawyers acting for Tracy Goodman, sentenced last month to life imprisonment for the murder of Marton pensioner Mona Morriss, have filed an appeal against her conviction and sentence.
Court of Appeal registrar Claire Brown confirmed to the Wanganui Chronicle that defence counsel Steve Winter had lodged the appeal on Monday.
Goodman, 44, was handed the longest sentence ever given to a woman in New Zealand - with a 19-year non-parole period - for stabbing Mrs Morriss, 83, to death and robbing her in her flat in January 2005.
Goodman's lawyers had said they would appeal when she was sentenced in the High Court at Wanganui on December 8.
Mrs Morriss' daughter, Glenys Meade, told the Chronicle she would be interested to know on what grounds the appeal would be made.
But news of the appeal did not surprise her.
"My reaction to that is it's all about (her) having control. It's all about Tracy really. She's always controlled things - like what she said (at the sentencing) `they've got it wrong' and that's a pattern in her life," Mrs Meade said.
- NZPA
