No parole for murderer of paedophile

A man who took part in the vigilante killing of a convicted paedophile with his uncle and a woman has been denied an early release from prison.

But when he is released, he wants to live away from Foxton, where he committed the murder.

Aubrey Thomas Harrison is serving a life sentence for the murder of Glen Stinson in July 2007.

Harrison’s 12-year minimum term ended in August, making him eligible for parole.

Harrison, his uncle Bruce Raymond Tamatea and a woman with name suppression killed Stinson after he was found sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl at a party in Palmerston North.

The woman attacked Stinson, a convicted paedophile awaiting trial at the time of his death for raping a young girl, before saying she was going to kill him.

The three killers put Stinson in a car and drove him to Foxton – something the woman told her trial was a plan to scare him.

Tamatea said they only wanted to give Stinson a beating and leave him there.

Instead, Stinson was beaten to death, hit in the head with a hammer, stomped on and choked to death by Tamatea. His body was left outside a poultry farm.

According to Stuff reports from the time of the murder, Stinson’s family did not claim his body after his post-mortem. He started sex offending at 17 and had 10 convictions. He had met his eldest son for the first time when in Manawatu¯ Prison; his son was also a sex offender.

Tamatea pleaded guilty to murder, and told the trial of Harrison and the woman that he was the only person to inflict violence on Stinson.

‘‘I had the hammer, I used the hammer. It was only supposed to be a bash,’’ he said.

Aubrey Harrison

But the jury found Harrison guilty of murder – he was also involved in the assault – and the woman guilty of manslaughter.

According to the report from Harrison’s first parole hearing, provided to Stuff by the Parole Board, he was assessed as being at high risk of reoffending.

He has a six-page-long criminal history for violence, drugs and disobeying court orders, and six previous prison sentences.

His early prison behaviour was just as poor, including involvement with drugs, he but had turned things around since 2016, the board said.

However, he only had a broad release plan with nowhere solid to live, although he did want to live in the Wellington region.

While the board congratulated him on his progress, it declined his early release, wanting more solid arrangements for his release and reintegration.

Tamatea has already been declined parole twice.