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Rena Maloney appears in Christchurch Superior Court accused of murdering Martin Orme Berry.
A woman accused of stabbing her partner two weeks before her body was found buried in a makeshift grave has appeared in court.
Cook Rena Maloney is accused of murdering Martin Orme Berry, 55, on December 29.
His body was found buried in his backyard two weeks later.
Maloney, also 55, appeared in Christchurch Superior Court on Thursday before Judge Cameron Mander.
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Maloney was placed in pretrial detention without a court declaration until February 19.
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Martin Orme Berry, who was found buried in a makeshift grave in Christchurch, was fired at a memorial service on Friday.
Berry was fired at a memorial service attended by more than 60 people in his hometown of Whanganui last month.
Berry’s brother, David, and his sister Joanna paid tribute to him at the memorial service.
David de Berry’s earliest memories were going to football games as a child in England. Berry was born in New Zealand, but the family moved to England for about three years when he was 4 years old.
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Rena Maloney, photographed in 2015, is accused of murdering her partner, Martin Berry.
“We were football fans, especially Martin.”
The family returned to Whanganui, with Berry attending Tawhero, St George’s and Whanganui collegiate schools.
David Berry said his brother was brilliant, studying four languages and playing cricket, soccer and chess. On the weekends, they would play at Virginia Lake or bike to Castlecliff to go fishing.
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Mourners leave the Martin Orme Berry memorial service in Whanganui.
Stuff It understands that several people have responded to a police call for persons who had contact or visited the occupants of 139a Main North Rd since Christmas Day to come forward.
Anyone with information on Berry’s death is asked to call the police at 105 and ask that their details be passed on to the Operation Leaf team.
