Kahui: My sons still cry for justice

Chris Kahui says he still grieves for his murdered sons. Photo / Herald on Sunday

Chris Kahui, cleared for the murder of his two sons last year, says he still grieves for his boys, and pines for justice.

In May 2008 a jury took 10 minutes to find Kahui not guilty of the 2006 murders of his three-month-old sons Chris and Cru. Nearly a year on, Kahui, 24, is under the close scrutiny of Child Youth and Family.

Speaking on TV2's 20/20, he said his sons "still cry for justice", and was critical of police for not pursuing the case. "I don't visit their graves, because it makes it harder. But nothing is happening. I have no answers for them."

"I loved it....to play around with them. I used to lie around with them....take photos....go to McDonalds. I miss them."

Police have closed the case, and no one else is expected to face charges.

He is now engaged to a new partner Marcia Ngapera, with whom he has a three-month-old child, Carla. Kahui was allowed to visit the baby, but could not live with her.

He was closely monitored by CYF, who had fortnightly meetings with him. But he said the CYF supervision went too far, becoming intrusive when his fiancee was giving birth to their first child. Two social workers interviewed the couple in the birthing suite at Auckland City Hospital.

"She was ready to give birth, and they were talking to her. I was like 'get out man, she's trying to give birth."'

Ms Ngapera said "I had all these birthing pains coming on, they were just asking heaps of questions. Because we were scared we would lose the baby, we complied with everything everybody told us."

CYF responded to their complaints by stating "that there were no medical reasons why [they] should not discuss the baby."

Asked if he suspected anyone of his sons' murders, Kahui said "I have my suspicions but it wouldn't be fair to say."

He said that his attention was not on his children when they received their fatal injuries. "My main focus at that time was my mother. My kids were safe as far as I knew."

He denied that family home where the twins died was a violent place. "It's not true. It was shared out as a family house. We smoked outside....we didn't even drink there. It was just a normal family house....a cosy home."

He planned to marry Marcia soon, who said he is still deeply affected by his sons' deaths.

"It was really horrible, knowing that he could have gone away for something that I knew he didn't do.

"Not a day goes by where he doesn't think about them. He still grieves. He hasn't forgotten."