Audrey Wallis. Photo / TV3
An American woman is refusing to return to New Zealand to face a charge of helping an Aucklander kill herself, in a cash-for-suicide case.
Cassandra Mae, who called herself Susan Wilson when she travelled to New Zealand in 2007, has spoken out for the first time since a coroner's report
into her role in the death of North Shore woman Audrey Wallis.
Coroner Katharine Greig said Wilson watched from a doorway as Wallis, 49, took her final breath in a small Albany flat, before packing up the evidence and at least $2000 in cash, and returning to the United States.
"She said that she took all the equipment away because Wallis wanted her death to look like natural causes," Greig found.
Auckland police have laid a charge of assisting suicide, but they cannot extradite her because the treaty with the United States does not include that charge.
