A jury has retired to consider its verdict in the "sad case" of a Wellington journalist who died after he was beaten and left unconscious last year.
Manuel Robinson, 18, and Nicho Waipuka, 20, have been on trial in the High Court at Wellington for the murder of Radio New Zealand journalist Phillip Cottrell.
Mr Cottrell, who had brittle bones due to a genetic condition, suffered a shattered skull in an attack in central Wellington as he walked home from work early on December 10 last year. He died in hospital the next day.
A jury of seven women and five men have sat through two weeks of evidence from more than 65 Crown witnesses
Summing up the case this morning, Justice Forrest Miller said Mr Cottrell had died violently and had done nothing to provoke the attack.