A 15-year-old Kerikeri boy has denied the murder and indecent assault of his ex-schoolmate Liberty Templeman last year.
Liberty, known as Libby, was found dead beside Kerikeri's Wairoa Stream on December 12 last year after disappearing on the way to meet a boyfriend. She was aged 15.
The teenagercharged with her murder appeared in the Kaikohe District Court this afternoon. His name is suppressed due to Youth Court regulations.
He was remanded to a youth facility in Auckland and is to reappear in the Whangarei High Court in June for a trial callover.
