Feilding farmer Ewen Macdonald, who earlier this month was found not guilty of murdering his brother-in-law Scott Guy, has made his first appearance in the Palmerston North District Court this afternoon on other serious charges.
During the month-long murder trial in the High Court at Wellington the jury was told of three other charges Macdonald had already pleaded guilty to.
He had admitted burning down a home on Mr Guy's property and vandalising another home Mr Guy and his wife Kylee were having built.
He also admitted poaching two deer, worth tens of thousands of dollars, from a neighbouring farm while on hunting ``missions'' with an accomplice, Callum Boe, 21, a former farmhand on the Guy farm.
Since his acquittal it has been revealed that Macdonald is also facing other serious charges.