9 Feb 2021

Man accused of Taranaki double murder named

9:54 am on 9 February 2021

The man accused of a double murder in Taranaki last month can now be named.

Investigators at the Taranaki home that is the focus of a double homicide inquiry.

Forensic investigators at the Taranaki home that is the focus of a double homicide inquiry. Photo: RNZ / Charlotte Cook

He is 21-year-old Nathan Frost.

At a brief appearance at the High Court in New Plymouth this morning Frost entered deemed not guilty pleas through his counsel Paul Keegan.

He is accused of killing 15-year-old Regan Frost-Lawn and 55-year-old Stephen John Frost on 18 January at a residential address in Hawera.

Keegan did not seek to extend Nathan Frost's name suppression.

Justice Jillian Mallone remanded him to reappear in April for a case review.

A tentative trial date has been set down for November.