Dion Mark McQueen, who is accused of murdering a Hamilton pensioner, allegedly attacked a woman outside the city's police station soon after the killing.
Indian-born Paropkari Lal, aged 70, was found with his throat cut and genitals mutilated in Ferry Bank park on the morning of September 16.
McQueen, aged 32, was committed for trial on a charge of murder after a depositions hearing in the Hamilton District Court yesterday.
According to written depositions handed to the court, McQueen was arrested only a few hours after Mr Lal was murdered. He was also charged with assaulting a female, resisting arrest and preparing to commit a crime.
An invalid beneficiary walking to town on September 15 said she saw a scuffle about 11.15 to 11.30 pm in the area of the park. She heard a cry or laugh and saw a stocky Maori or Pacific Islander holding on to a slim-looking man, whom he then dragged towards flax bushes.
A Hamilton student, who was out that night in town, said she was followed by a stocky Maori man as she started walking home to her Pembroke St house to fetch her car to pick up friends.
The man caught up with her and they talked. He asked for a ride into town.
The student agreed and when she got into the car, noting the time at 1.16 am, he sat on the back seat right behind her.
When they set off, the man tried to pull the steering wheel to guide the car away from her route.
She said he spoke very quietly to her, saying that he wanted to talk.
She parked outside the Hamilton police station and went in to complain. Constable Shauntelle Hodel went out to the car.
As the man was entering the station, he grabbed the student and tried to drag her away.
Constable Hodel used pepper spray on the man, who ran off.
A police search of the area was started, and a man, later identified by police as McQueen, was arrested with the help of a police dog.
Other people who gave depositions reported encountering a stocky Maori man in the city that Friday night or Saturday morning, and of being threatened or intimidated by him.
One, a 19-year-old student, said he had a cocktail drinking session that Friday night before heading into town, very drunk.
He was walking south down Victoria St when a Maori man put his arm around the back of his shoulder, and saying nothing, starting pulling the student in his direction.
"I was really scared. My heart was racing. I did not know what he was going to do to me," the student said in his deposition.
Mr Lal had a 25cm cut to his neck almost from ear to ear.
Pathologist Nadir Hasan said Mr Lal's penis had been cut off and the skin of the scrotum removed, leaving the testicles exposed.
McQueen's lawyer, Christopher Harder, conceded yesterday that there was a case to answer.
The evidence of all 42 witnesses was handed to the court in written form.
McQueen pleaded not guilty before community magistrates Pat Ferguson and Geraldine Scott, and was remanded in custody to the Waikato Hospital Henry Bennett psychiatric facility.
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