David Hawken and Rebecca Wright-Meldrum both deny murdering Angela Blackmoore (inset) and are standing trial at the High Court in Christchurch. Photo / George Heard
David Hawken and Rebecca Wright-Meldrum both deny murdering Angela Blackmoore (inset) and are standing trial at the High Court in Christchurch. Photo / George Heard
Two people have today denied involvement in the 1995 killing of a pregnant Christchurch woman in what has long been one of New Zealand’s most infamous cold-case murders.
Angela Maree Blackmoore, 21, was brutally killed inside her Vancouver Crescent home on August 17, 1995, while her 2-year-old son slept inthe next room.
The case went unsolved for more than two decades before Jeremy Crinis James Powell was arrested in 2019 after police offered a then-record $100,000 reward.
Three years ago, Powell was jailed for at least 10 years for bludgeoning and stabbing Blackmoore to death in what a judge called a “dreadful and monstrous killing”.
Powell said the murder was organised by others and that he was offered $10,000 for the killing.
He will be called as a witness in the new trial.
Angela Blackmoore was 21 when she died at her home in August 1995. Photo / Supplied
Today, at the High Court in Christchurch, the Crown alleged that David Peter Hawken, 50, and Rebecca Elizabeth Jane Wright-Meldrum, 51, acted with Powell to murder Blackmoore.
Both Hawken and Wright-Meldrum have always denied any involvement in Blackmoore’s death and have pleaded not guilty.
