The 26-year-old appeared in Whanganui District Court this afternoon.
A man has appeared in Whanganui District Court charged with the murder of Whanganui woman Feona McKay-Patea.
The 26-year-old Taranaki man, who has interim name suppression, is accused of murdering McKay-Patea between September 20 to October 3. Details of his relationship to the victim were also suppressed.
The body of
McKay-Patea was found at a property in Lee St, Castlecliff, on October 3 while police were investigating a missing person report.
McKay-Patea was the mother of two young boys.
The man is also facing six dishonesty-related charges for allegedly using McKay-Patea's bank card on four occasions, transferring a total of $1053.33 from McKay-Patea's account on six occasions, and taking McKay-Patea's car for his own purpose.
