Colin James Thompson will now serve 12 years and four months' imprisonment before he is eligible for parole. Photo / File
Colin James Thompson will now serve 12 years and four months' imprisonment before he is eligible for parole. Photo / File
A man who shot his Taranaki landlord at close range and told the dying 78-year-old victim "you got what you deserved" has had his minimum term of imprisonment reduced on appeal.
Colin James Thompson will now serve 12 years and four months' imprisonment before he is eligible for parole.
He failed to overturn the overall sentence of life imprisonment, which he had appealed on the basis of suffering a delusional disorder.
Thompson and his wife had rented a property on a farm owned by the victim, Maurice John Riddle.