A teenager charged with murder after allegedly throwing a block of concrete from an Auckland motorway overbridge told a friend at school about the incident, a court was told today.
A friend of the boy said the accused, 14, asked him if he had heard about the death of a
man after a concrete block was thrown on to the car he was driving on the Southern Motorway.
"He told me he picked up a rock and chucked it down underneath the bridge where the cars were going," the witness, also 14, said in Manukau Youth Court.
"I said, 'How do you feel about it?' He said, 'Pretty much sad'."
The conversation took place during a Monday morning physical education lesson, three days after the August 19 incident.
Both the accused and the witness have name suppression.
Crown prosecutor Simon Moore said 13 witnesses, mostly teenage friends of the accused, would be called over the five-day depositions hearing, which began today.
Mr Moore said the accused also faced a charge of endangering transport.
Taupo resident Chris Currie, 20, died instantly when a concrete block smashed through his windscreen. His three passengers escaped serious injury.
- NZPA
