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Auckland investment banker Matthew Schofield has been sent to prison for two years for fatally lighting a colleague's grass skirt at a Christmas party.
At the High Court in Auckland last month, Schofield, 27, admitted the manslaughter of Gareth MacFadyen, 24.
Schofield had set fire to Mr MacFadyen's grass skirt at a Merrill Lynch Christmas party last year.
At sentencing today Justice Hansen also ordered Schofield to make reparation of $27,000 after the offer was made in court through his lawyer Stuart Grieve.
Schofield also pleaded guilty to causing injury to Angela Offwood, 29, who was also badly burnt in the incident.
On that charge he was sentenced to nine months in prison, to be served concurrently with the manslaughter charge.
The judge ordered reparation of $10,000 to be paid immediately to Mrs Offwood.
Schofied has been granted leave to apply for home detention.
Banker gets two years jail over grass skirt death
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