This NA Member got to stay Anonymous even in court!
Identity kept secret in drug death case
The son of a well-known New Zealand wine-making family has been granted name suppression and released on bail despite pleading guilty to manslaughter. The 40-year-old man pleaded guilty in the High Court at Auckland yesterday to the manslaughter of a drug associate he injected with morphine.
The man retained name suppression after arguing the effect could be detrimental to an unwell family member.
Court documents said the man met the victim at Narcotics Anonymous in Auckland and they agreed to swap a tent for drugs.
They met in the Auckland suburb of Sandringham in March 2010, drank beer and took a diazepam tablet together.
The accused then dissolved a 100mg morphine sulphate tablet and injected half of it in his own neck before injecting the remaining portion in the victim’s right arm.
He went outside and spoke to his girlfriend on his cellphone and when he returned his friend was slumped under the table he had been sitting at. Chest compressions and slaps failed to revive him so the man gathered his drug paraphernalia and left the house.
The man’s girlfriend later persuaded him to return and call an ambulance, by which time the friend was dead.
It took six months for the man to be charged.
In the time before he was charged, the man had offered to pay his girlfriend $50,000 not to testify against him.
A charge of perverting the course of justice was dropped after the man pleaded guilty yesterday.
Defence lawyer Greg Morison said the man had completed a residential drug treatment programme since the crime.
He was undertaking another residential programme in Dunedin which is where he was bailed to.
Justice Timothy Brewer said cases of manslaughter by injecting people with drugs were not as rare as defence counsel had said.
He rejected that naming the man could endanger the jobs of people at the family’s winery as he doubted people would stop drinking the family’s wines as a result of the case.
The judge said he doubted that name suppression would continue after sentencing but he continued interim suppression after Morison said he wanted to obtain affidavits from the man’s sick relative’s specialist.
A home detention report was ordered and the man was bailed to the Dunedin drug treatment programme until sentencing in March.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6387158/Identity-kept-secret-in-drug-death-case
Royal Oak, Michigan Alan Wood 48, a convicted felon with a long rap sheet will be charged in the murder of 80 year old Nancy Dailey.He has done time for home invasion, arson, breaking and entering and attempted rape. In the attempted rape charge was of a woman he had met at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting.His partner in crime Tonia Watson 40, will also be charged in the murder.They both should have been behind bars.
A Royal Oak police officer investigates at the home where Nancy Dailey was found dead last month. Alan Wood and Tonia Watson have long criminal histories and were suspected of credit card fraud a month before the slaying, but they remained free, staying in motels in Royal Oak.
A Royal Oak police officer investigates at the home where Nancy Dailey was found dead last month. Alan Wood and Tonia Watson have long criminal histories and were suspected of credit card fraud a month before the slaying, but they remained free, staying in motels in Royal Oak.
Detroit Free Press Staff
Ex-cons-raised-alarms-before-chilling-Royal-Oak-killing” alt=”Victim: Nancy Dailey, 80, had her hands bound and throat slit.”
Victim: Nancy Dailey, 80, had her hands bound and throat slit.
Ex-cons-raised-alarms-before-chilling-Royal-Oak-killing” alt=”Suspects: Alan Wood, 48, and Tonia Watson, 40, could be charged Monday.” Suspects: Alan Wood, 48, and Tonia Watson, 40, could be charged Monday.Ex-cons-raised-alarms-before-chilling-Royal-Oak-killing” alt=”Alan Wood and Tonia Watson were staying in Royal Oak motels and wandered neighborhoods, offering to do work for money. Police searched Room 103 at the Seville Motel on Woodward, where the couple reportedly stayed in October. A month later, Nancy Dailey was killed in her home. Family members said she hired the duo to do yard work. They were “staying in Royal Oak motels and wandered neighborhoods, offering to do work for money. Police searched Room 103 at the Seville Motel on Woodward, where the couple reportedly stayed in October. A month later, Nancy Dailey was killed in her home. Family members said she hired the duo to do yard work.Michael McCulloch, 54, lives behind the Seville Motel and encountered Wood and Watson in late October. They told him they were homeless and asked for a ride to another motel, and he agreed. Wood asked where they could find work. McCulloch suggested buying rakes and offering their services.A month before an elderly Royal Oak woman was brutally killed in her home, a parolee now suspected in the slaying was called in by his parole officer and police, who say the ex-con was caught on store surveillance video using a stolen credit card.
Instead of violating his parole, authorities turned Alan Wood, 48, loose and told him to return in four days because the parole officer hadn’t yet viewed the surveillance video.
Wood never showed.
Four weeks later, prosecutors say, Wood and another parolee — Tonia Watson, 40 — tied up 80-year-old Nancy Dailey and slit her throat during a robbery at her home.
Wood and Watson are in the Oakland County Jail and are expected to be charged in Dailey’s death as early as Monday, according to the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office.
The two drifters, who were staying at motels in Royal Oak, had been wandering the city’s neighborhoods for weeks in search of work.
That’s how they met Dailey, according to family members, who say she hired them do yard work.
Alan Wood had attacked woman he met at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting
In 1989, he attempted to rape a woman he’d met in Narcotics Anonymous. It was their second date, and after dinner and drinks, the woman asked to be taken home.
Instead, he turned into a dark alley in Royal Oak and attacked her, grabbing her hair, bending back her thumb and trying to get her pants off, according to court records. The woman escaped from the car and ran to a nearby house. Wood later pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal conduct, a 10-year felony, but was sentenced to seven months in the county jail and 24 months of probation.
“It was one of the most terrifying things that ever happened to me,” the woman told the Free Press in a recent interview. “I barely knew him, and it turned ugly fast.”
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Update http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46765674/ns/local_news-detroit_mi/t/couple-accused-murdering-royal-oak-woman-was-court-friday/#.T2gQfRHOxOE-
