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Nevaeh Ager, who was allegedly killed by her father, Aaron Izett, in Little Waihi in 2019.
A Coast Guard volunteer called to help with the arrest of Aaron George Izett, charged with murder, described his “unreal” force and aggression while fighting police officers, despite being attacked with two guns times.
Todd O’Connell testified in Rotorua Superior Court on the fifth day of Izett’s murder trial, who also faces multiple charges of assault and battery.
Izett is accused of murdering Nevaeh Ager, his 2-year-old daughter.
It is a murder that defense attorney Nicholas Chisnell said his client had admitted to.
“Mr. Izett accepted that he killed his daughter, accepts that he is responsible for her death … the physical act is not in dispute.”
However, Chisnell claimed that his client should be found innocent on the grounds of insanity.
The Crown claims that Izett, a habitual meth user, killed his daughter in a “meth rage”, inflicting a catalog of injuries on the young child with a gun or weapons, before leaving her in the estuary behind his home to drowned.
Two rocks weighing approximately 80 kilograms plunged it into the water.
Crown Prosecutor Anna Pollett asked O’Connell about the events of March 21 of last year, when he was called in to help police arrest Izett after a neighbor called him to report his stranger. behavior.
He said Izett was displaying “quite aggressive behavior” when he arrived and that he had to help a police officer with first aid after Izett bit them.
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Aaron Izett admitted to killing his daughter and now a jury must decide if he committed murder.
“Very aggressive, he was handcuffed, with plastic handcuffs on his feet … trying to bite and attack anyone he could while he was immobilized,” O’Connell said.
“I was just saying that the pain makes it stronger.”
When asked to describe the level of strength Izett was displaying, O’Connell simply said, “Unreal.”
He also said Izett was telling police that his daughter was in trouble because she was home alone and that “he would die unless he was released.”
“I never heard any mention of her daughter until a police officer said murder,” O’Connell said.
It also revealed that Izett was given ketamine to sedate him and that they had to order additional supplies of the sedative after it ran out.
The jury also heard evidence from Kevin Kiri, who had a home in Little Waihi near Izett’s.
Most of their evidence was echoed by previous witnesses, with descriptions of erratic and sometimes threatening behavior from Izett.
Kiri also recalled seeing Izett with Nevaeh walking across the estuary to check some fishing nets.
“He held her tightly against his body and it seemed like there was a bond between the two.”
The trial will continue and is expected to last three weeks.
