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The woman accused of helping Graeme Burton evade arrest grew up two doors down the road from him.
Barely a day after the convicted murderer's alleged latest victim was laid to rest, Colleen Malloy was arrested at a house in Taita about 9.45am yesterday.
She was well known
to Burton as they grew up, and it is understood that she drove to Palmerston North to pick him up in December - four months after he was paroled.
Malloy is accused of helping him while he was on the run from police after an attack on 30-year-old Paul Connolly in central Wellington 11 days ago.
Detective Senior Sergeant Shane Cotter said police were tipped off by members of the public as to Malloy's whereabouts. She was to be interviewed by police yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Herald on Sunday understands that just weeks before Graeme Burton's rampage through Wellington, he asked to be allowed to move away from a neighbour who had also spent time in jail. The convicted murderer's application was apparently turned down by his probation officer - Corrections will not comment - so he remained in his central Wellington apartment on Tory St.
Police shot and arrested Burton after he allegedly killed 26-year-old Karl Kuchenbecker last Saturday night.
Scott Elliott, 29, has also been arrested, after he and Burton allegedly broke into the Courtenay Place apartment of Paul Connolly, bashing him so badly that they broke several bones.
Connelly's apartment is just a few blocks away from Burton's.
Family friend Glenyss Buchanan said last week that Burton had been excited and positive about his release, and determined to make a new life for himself.
She was not sure why he wanted to move away from the man but thought it could be because he did not want to be led astray again.
In a statement, Probation and Offender Services acting general manager Tracy Mellor said that because an internal review of the handling of Burton's parole was under way, "further details of the management of his parole will not be released until that investigation is complete".
Karl Kuckenbecher's death may have taken centre-stage last week, but his funeral was an intensely secret family affair.
The father of two, allegedly shot by Burton in the hills above his family farm, was farewelled on Friday at Lower Hutt's Gee & Hickton Funeral Directors.
Metallica songs and home videos played during the short service, and mourners in the small room filled only the first few pews.
The morning of the funeral, even close friends of the born-and-bred local boy did not know where it would be held.
On Thursday, Karl's father said that it was a "tough time right at this minute".
"I can't tell you why. Maybe next week - we're getting closer to what we have to do now.
"We want this week to be news-free," he said.
