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Aaron George Izett admitted he killed his two-year-old daughter, but denies the murder
When his partner went into labor at their Little Waihi home, Aaron George Izett, accused of murder, was on the phone with a 111 operator.
As his partner Alyson Ager could be heard moaning and screaming in the background, Izett told the operator “now it’s all about me.”
When Ager returned from the hospital after the premature birth of her son in a roadside ambulance, just days later, her two-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, was killed by Izett.
“As soon as I saw the police cars, I jumped out of the car and just ran towards the house,” Ager told Rotorua High Court on the second day of Izett’s trial Tuesday.
“But I couldn’t get close to him. I knew something bad happened. “
Izett faces a series of assault and wounding charges and one murder charge, which in March 2019 killed Nevaeh Jahkaya Whatukura Ager.
On Monday, the opening day of the trial, Izett’s attorney, Nicholas Chisnell, said there was no question that his client had killed her.
They claim that he was not guilty of murder since at that time he was insane.
The Crown, however, claims that Izett, a habitual methamphetamine user, killed her in a “meth attack”, inflicting a catalog of injuries on her daughter before rendering her unconscious in the water behind her house to drown.
It was also overwhelmed by two rocks.
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The mudflats behind Tio Place in Little Waihi, where the body of two-year-old Nevaeh Ager was found.
Crown prosecutor Anna Pollett said the girl was the victim of “assault, assault, assault before drowning.”
The second day of the trial began with a call of 111 on the court.
In it, Izett told the operator how he owned the ambulance company, was a prophet, and “New Zealand’s greatest president.”
It was some of the strange claims he made during the 30 minute call.
“I own the whole company, I own everything,” he said.
He also told the operator that he would fire her.
“There is no one else in New Zealand, in the world, who can prevent me from annihilating them. It’s as simple as it sounds. “
The jury of seven men and five women heard Ager’s evidence, under questioning by Pollett.
He talked about the strange behavior Izett would display when taking methamphetamine, and how he had to provide him with the cash to buy the drugs.
He said that on one occasion he had given her some money to go buy diapers and cigarettes, and that he did not return for three days.
The money was gone, spent on drugs and slot machines.
Ager also described her daughter, sometimes crying as she spoke, as “friendly. . . I would describe her as a social butterfly, anyone whose path she crossed, she put a smile on her face. “
He said that his daughter was a happy girl whose favorite activity was watching the Peppa Pig TV show.
He also remembered his fateful return from the hospital.
He had received a phone call from Izett’s mother on his way home.
“She told me to go straight home, he [Izett] I was out of this, naked and they couldn’t find Nevaeh, ”he said.
“I was afraid he might have drowned or something.”
Ager also said that he had texted Izett from the hospital.
“To let him know we had a baby, I got no response.”
The trial is expected to last three weeks and evidence from 60 witnesses will be heard.
