A man who brutally beat his teenage girlfriend to death with a shotgun in Whangārei 17 years ago has been denied parole as he remains at risk of re-offending.
Nathan Charles Fenton, then aged 31 and a Black Power member, admitted to beating girlfriend Mairina Dunn, in a Holmes Ave, Otangarei house on August 27, 2006, and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years in the High Court at Whangārei on April 30, 2007.
Fenton killed Mairina during a vicious 90-minute attack with a sawn-off shotgun, believing she had been unfaithful to him. The beating left the shotgun barrel bent and the butt splintered.
He went up before the Parole Board for the first time on September 25, and it made the decision to deny him parole, and scheduled for him to go back before the board to seek parole in February 2025.
“For today, [the] risk remains undue and parole is declined,” the board said.