A man has pleaded guilty to threatening to rob Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles just hours before he was brutally murdered and dismembered.
Name suppression was lifted today for Timothy John Kuka, 37, after he pleaded guilty to an amended charge of demanding with menace a cellphone, iPod, and a cask of wine from 15-year-old Hayden on August 22, 2011.
Kuka would have been one of the last people to see Hayden alive.
Last month, Gavin John Gosnell was found guilty of murdering Hayden at a Cashel St flat on the same day in 2011.
Kuka, an unemployed man from Parklands in Christchurch, had his name suppressed after he first appeared in court on a robbery charge.