CHRISTCHURCH - A woman who earlier admitted injecting morphine into the arm of a 14-year-old schoolgirl prostitute now wants to change her plea to not guilty.
Michelle Marie Wilson, aged 30, a beneficiary, was to have been sentenced yesterday on a charge of administering a class B controlled drug.
When she appeared before Justice Young, in the High Court at Christchurch, lawyer Craig Hyde said he had filed an application for a change of plea by his client.
Justice Young adjourned the hearing of the application until Wednesday and remanded Wilson on bail.
The charge faced by Wilson arose from two men, Gary Isherwood and Michael Holdem, admitting that they had deliberately turned the schoolgirl into a drug addict.
They had then forced the schoolgirl into a life of prostitution so she could pay them for her twice-a-day morphine injection.
Isherwood and Holdem are now both serving eight-year prison sentences.
- NZPA
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