Gordon Hieatt. Photo / Natalie Slade
Gordon Hieatt refused to answer questions about his girlfriend's death during his police interview, shown to a High Court jury yesterday, other than to mutter, "I killed her", under his breath.
Hieatt, 47, stared blankly at the table in front of him for much of the interview with Detective Daniel
Egen, shown at his murder trial in Auckland.
After about 30 minutes he broke down in tears and said, "I killed her." The remaining half-hour of the two-hour interview will be shown today.
On his arrest, Hieatt told Mr Egen he had choked his girlfriend, Nuttidar Vaikaew, 48, a Thai sex worker, to death on April 17 last year.
Her body was found nearly a month later in a bed in her Auckland apartment.
The court also heard evidence yesterday from Pranom Khotngao, who was flown from Thailand to give evidence at the trial.
She told the court she met Hieatt on an online dating website and he visited her three times in Thailand.
She said he spoke to her via an online messaging service from Auckland and told her he had killed Ms Vaikaew.
- NZPA
