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The mother of a woman killed by convicted killer Paul Pounamu Tainui wants a full independent investigation into her daughter’s death.
Paul Pounamu Tainui, born Paul Russell Wilson, was on probation for the 1994 murder of his girlfriend, Kimberley Schroder, 21, when he was caught driving under the influence of alcohol in Christchurch on April 6, 2018.
Shortly after leaving a police checkpoint, he took a taxi to the Merivale home of Nicole Tuxford, 27, and waited overnight to rape and murder her when he arrived there around 8 a.m. the next day.
Tainui, then 55, was jailed for life in March last year, with a minimum period of no parole of 28 years.
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The Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) released its investigation into decisions made at the alcohol checkpoint on Thursday.
He found that police did not have a clear process for dealing with parolees when officers detained him.
But it was “reasonable” to let him go, despite the fact that he was drunk and had knives in the car.
However, Tuxford’s mother, Cherie Gillatt, said Stuff Through his attorney, Nikki Pender, that the investigation did not go far enough.
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Gillatt wrote to the IPCA in June last year and said there were six separate occasions that, if “handled correctly”, they should have landed Tainui in jail.
One involved a complaint on the Canterbury police Facebook page in May 2015 from a woman who said Tainui offered her and her friends acid and bragged about murdering Schroder in a pub.
Others involved two car accidents Tainui had, a family violence complaint in which he was seen as the victim, and an apparent failure to record an alert about his use of alcohol even though probation warned him that they were seeing his risk. growing.
Gillatt said the alert would have been picked up by officers who stopped him at the checkpoint.
Two final points, addressed in the IPCA report, revolved around the checkpoint and the knives.
The report comes after the Board of Probation and Corrections conducted its own reviews after Tuxford’s murder.
Pender said a “primordial” investigation was needed to see how the agencies involved were managing the risk.
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Cherie Gillatt, Tuxford’s mother, with family and friends after Tainui’s sentencing.
“The risk is someone who has murdered before in a cold, chilling and sadistic way in the community. From what we can see, the information that we have and is in the public arena, there were red flags throughout the program.
“Where is the coordinated response that ensures this is properly assessed in the first place and properly managed to protect the community?”
Pender said the Tuxford family wanted an independent investigation into “systemic issues.”
“We want a complete and thorough investigation that can look at all the questions we raised, from assessing your risk when you were granted parole to managing your parole, going through all these flags that were raised.”
In his complaint to the IPCA, Gillatt said his daughter was killed “in the most chillingly deliberate, cruel and sadistic way.”
“Nicole’s future was stolen from her and from what we now understand, it never should have happened. How do we live knowing that? “
One of Schroder’s best friends, Jenny Keogan, and her mother Nancy Schroder, also wrote to the IPCA to say that the Tuxfords’ request for review had their “full support.”
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Tainui was jailed last year for life with a 28-year sentence without parole.
“We believe that from the initial decision by the New Zealand Board of Parole to release this man back to our community, to the murder of a second victim and then the loss of Gary Schroder to suicide upon learning of this second murder, there has been a total failure of the system by all departments involved, including the New Zealand Board of Parole, Corrections and Police. “
“We have lived with this horror at the hands of this man for over 25 years.”
The IPCA report found it “reasonable” that the officer did not arrest or detain Tainui when he was caught driving under the influence of alcohol and with knives in his car.
“At that time there were no clear processes for him to follow regarding parolees and nothing in the law that requires parolees to be arrested when they are suspected of committing a crime in prison,” said the President of the IPCA, Judge Colin Doherty.
Canterbury District Commander Superintendent John Price said Tuxford’s murder was a “tragedy.”
“His family remains in our thoughts as they continue to deal with the unimaginable pain and anguish caused by his loss.
“Our thoughts also remain with the family of Kim Schroder, who was murdered by Tainui in 1994, for the gruesome trauma they faced after Nicole’s murder.”
The officers who dealt with Tainui had been “deeply affected” by his “despicable actions”, but they had no way of predicting what he was going to do and made appropriate decisions based on the information they had.
