11 Nov 2019

Alex Latimer's killers sentenced to life in prison

From Checkpoint, 5:42 pm on 11 November 2019

Warning: This story and related coverage of the trial contain graphic details that may be distressing.

The sister-in-law of a man who was forced to dig his own grave before being brutally murdered has described how she is now scared to sleep in the dark.

David James Lothian and James Taylor Webby stabbed, stripped and buried Alex Latimer in Hawke's Bay in September last year.

The two men were sentenced to life imprisonment for his murder.

Anusha Bradley was at the High Court in Napier and filed this report.