A court has been shown dramatic footage of an Auckland dairy owner being stabbed in the neck during a robbery before he collapsed and died.
A 14-year-old is charged with murder and a 13-year-old with manslaughter in the death of Arun Kumar (pictured) in his Henderson shop, the Railside Dairy, nearly a year ago.
The pair - who have name suppression - also face counts of assault with intent to rob.
Crown prosecutor Kingi Snelgar described the sequence of events on June 10 last year and played CCTV footage of the robbery, while members of the Kumar family wept in the public gallery. Neither teen watched the video.
Mr Snelgar told the court the shopkeeper sustained stab wounds just below his ribs, below the left shoulder and, critically, one to the neck. The knife severed an artery and the jugular vein. The force of the blows was such that the blade left an indentation on a vertebra. Video footage showed the boys flee while Mr Kumar collapsed in the shop doorway.
Mr Snelgar said they ran home and the murder accused showered and changed his clothes. The trial in the High Court at Auckland is scheduled to last about a month. NZME.