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When asked if he killed pregnant mother Angela Blackmoore, David Hawken said “I have a clear conscience.”
That was last year. Now the former debt collector and gang partner is one of three people charged in his murder.
Hawken, 47, was arrested at his Wānaka home on May 5.
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Angela Blackmoore was starting a new life with her partner of nine months, Laurie Anderson, when she was murdered.
A suppression order that kept his identity secret expired on Monday, following a successful challenge by Stuff.
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Blackmoore, 21, was nine weeks pregnant when she was beaten and stabbed 39 times at her Christchurch home on August 17, 1995.
Jeremy Powell, 45, and Rebecca Wright-Meldrum, 48, were arrested in October of last year after a Stuff The investigation, Dark Secret, revealed new information about the unsolved case, with police offering a record $ 100,000 reward.
Powell was jailed for at least 10 years in June after admitting his role in the murder.
Hawken and Wright-Meldrum will defend the murder charges in a trial that was due to begin in February but was delayed at a hearing last week. A new test date has not been set yet.
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Jeremy Powell says he was offered $ 10,000 to kill Angela Blackmoore in 1995.
Last year, before any arrests in connection with the Blackmoore murder, police said Stuff that Hawken, the former owner of Debt Collectors International and a partner in the now-defunct Templars Motorcycle Club, was a “person of interest” for their investigation.
He had been interviewed numerous times, but denied participation.
In two interviews recorded with Stuff Last year, Hawken, an old school friend of Blackmoore’s ex-husband William, said he was at home with his pregnant partner the night of the murder when he received a phone call from his mother, who “hated me.” That call gave him an alibi.
“I didn’t kill her. That has been proven, ”she said.
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Rebecca Wright-Meldrum, pictured with the cigarette, allegedly murdered Angela Blackmoore in 1995.
“They dragged us over the embers … and that is a fact. I have nothing to hide. My conscience is clear.
“If I ever find out who did it … God help you.”
Hawken said he was involved in brokering a settlement between Blackmoore and her ex-husband, potentially worth tens of thousands of dollars, regarding a home they owned on Cashel St.
He said he was living in the property at the time of the murder because he had loaned the couple up to $ 10,000 to help pay the mortgage, and when he fell into hard times, he needed a place to stay.
In April, a judge granted the police a search warrant to obtain copies of Stuff interviews with Hawken.
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At his medieval-themed 21st birthday party, six weeks after the murder, Jeremy Powell never hinted at what he had done.
According to the Crown’s factual summary, Powell went to Blackmoore’s home in Vancouver Cres with a hunting knife and a bat hidden under a trench coat that he was wearing around 9 p.m.
After she invited him in, he attacked her in the kitchen, hitting her several times with his guns to the head and neck.
Blackmoore was found dead on the ground in a pool of dried blood when her new partner, Laurie Anderson, came home from work at the University of Canterbury at around 11:20 p.m.
Her 2-year-old son was asleep in bed and unharmed.
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Angela Blackmoore’s partner, Laurie Anderson, speaks to the media after Jeremy Powell’s sentencing.
Powell, who grew up in Oxford, confessed to the murder last year after police, acting on a tip, brought him and Wright in for questioning.
In an interview that surprised investigators, he told them that he had been offered $ 10,000 to kill Blackmoore, a former prostitute whom he knew through acquaintances. It is unclear if she ever received the money.
At Powell’s sentencing, it was revealed that he was a reluctant hit man.
In the days leading up to the murder, the then 20-year-old went to Blackmoore’s home with the intention of killing her, but was unable to do so.
In sentencing Powell, Judge Cameron Mander described the crime as “gruesome and monstrous.”
It involved a high degree of planning and was a “cold-blooded execution of a defenseless woman.”
A suppression order prevents Stuff reporting details of Wright-Meldum and Hawken’s alleged involvement in the murder.
Wright-Meldrum was one of Blackmoore’s friends.
At the time of the murder, she and Powell, then a nightclub bouncer, were in a relationship and lived together on a property on Linwood Ave.
They have a daughter together, but they separated before she was born in 1997.
A month ago, police said they had not paid the $ 100,000 reward. It is unclear if that is still the case.
“If any payments are made, we will not be able to comment for legal reasons,” a police spokesman said Monday.
