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Cold case murder trial: Why John Allison believes his sister killed their father

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An antagonistic relationship between siblings, threats by phone and text, and a man with a dubious past who slept right through a fatal house fire as it raged only 20 metres from his bed.

Those were some of the key pieces of evidence heard by a jury in the High Court murder trial for Lynne Maree Martin, 63, (previously Tweeddale) on its sixth day in Gisborne on Monday.

The main witness was ...


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