A 55-year-old man has appeared in court in relation to the deaths of two women in West Auckland yesterday.
Ishrat Malik, a taxi driver, stood before Waitakere District Court today, clutching his head and supported by two police officers.
He was charged with the murder of two women, a mother and daughter who were found in their Ranui home yesterday morning.
Police said they were called to a residential address in Pooks Road shortly after ten o'clock yesterday morning.
Officers discovered the bodies of the wo women at the address.