Two women accused of killing Amandeep Singh in Gisborne last year were part of a growing local culture of females using promises of sex to swindle migrant Indian workers for alcohol and cash, a defence lawyer says.
Adam Simperingham made the comment as his client Crystal Louise Black, 25, was sentenced for manslaughter along with her partner Krystel Therese Pokai, 24, in the High Court at Gisborne yesterday. The pair had admitted assaulting 22-year-old Mr Singh at Kaiti Beach, on December 29, 2012. They dragged his unresponsive body into bushes, where it was found a month later, too badly decomposed for the cause of death to be ascertained.
Justice Murray Gilbert sentenced Pokai and Black each to a total of eight years and eight months.
