The family of murdered Australian surfer Sean McKinnon will be spared a trial ... after a guilty plea from the New Zealander who killed him in August last year
The family of murdered Australian surfer Sean McKinnon will be spared a trial ... after a guilty plea from the New Zealander who killed him in August last year
7 October 2020
Mark Ronald Garson earlier pleaded NOT guilty to murdering McKinnon and threatening to kill Bianca Buckley in their campervan parked on a Raglan cliff.
Buckley escaped and ran kilometres to find help.
Garson today changed his plea and admitted the crime.
He will be sentenced in December.
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