Tuvaluan dialysis patient can stay in New Zealand

A Tuvaluan man charged with threatening to kill his wife will be able to continue receiving dialysis treatment in New Zealand.

Senee Niusila, 31, was discharged without conviction on two charges in the Waitakere District Court this morning.

If Mr Nuisila had been convicted, he would probably have been sent home to Tuvalu, where there was no dialysis and he would almost certainly die within four weeks.

Mr Niusila had pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife, Moana Niusila, and threatening to kill her at their Auckland home on June 13.

At a hearing in September, the Tuvaluan was ordered to take an anger management course while on voluntary supervision with the probation service.