29 Aug 2025

Loafers Lodge murder trial see CCTV of man setting the fire

From Checkpoint, 4:42 pm on 29 August 2025

The Loafers Lodge murder trial today watched CCTV footage of a man setting a fire inside the Wellington boarding house on the evening it burned down. A 50-year-old-man, who has name suppression, is accused of murdering five people by setting the lodge alight in May 2023. Reporter Kate Green was in the High Court in Wellington and spoke to Lisa Owen.