Agnes Nicholas (pictured), the wife of slain Hawke's Bay farmer Jack Nicholas, speaks during a memorial service, at the Hastings Clock Tower, for families of New Zealand murder victims yesterday.
Ten years ago, Mr Nicholas was shot dead by a gunman who had waited for him to venture outside his
Makahu farmhouse in the frosty dawn of August 27, 2004.
The tragedy rocked Hawke's Bay and rural New Zealand as the gunman escaped and it was not until May 2006 that police made an arrest. However, after a six-week trial two years later, a jury deliberating for more than a day delivered a mid-evening verdict of not guilty, allowing then 51-year-old accused man Murray "Moe" Foreman to walk free.
