A man charged with the murder of a woman in Te Anau in May has been remanded in custody.
Rodney Stewart Fallowfield (52) appeared by audiovisual link in the High Court at Invercargill yesterday, facing a charge of murder.
The Otago Daily Times understands Fallowfield and Shirley Alaina Reedy (52) had only been married a matter of months before he allegedly killed her.
An interim name suppression order was lifted yesterday by Justice Cameron Mander.
Police started a homicide investigation after the body of Ms Reedy, of Balclutha, was found at a Cleddau St, Te Anau, address on May 15.
It has been reported the body was found at a motel, which has been the subject of police investigations.
Detective Sergeant Mark McCloy said after the incident the pair, who were visitors to Te Anau, were known to each other.
Fallowfield entered no plea yesterday morning, and was remanded in custody to reappear next month.
■In another case, the man involved in the crash that took the life of Invercargill nurse Emma Bagley has had his trial date set.
Taine Rupena Tata Bryn Edwards was a passenger in Dejay Rawiri Kane’s car when Kane was speeding and caused the fatal crash.
Edwards appeared yesterday in the High Court at Invercargill, where he has been charged with being party to manslaughter by inciting and encouraging the driver to operate a vehicle recklessly, thereby causing death.
He also faces three counts of inciting and encouraging the driver to operate a vehicle recklessly, thereby causing injury.
On December 7, 2018, Mrs Bagley (37) died when the car she was in with her husband, Leonard, and their two children, Eva and Flynn, was T-boned by the car Kane was driving, at the intersection of Newcastle and Clifton Sts, in the Invercargill suburb of Windsor.
Justice Cameron Mander remanded Edwards on bail for an expected one-week trial on August 31.
Kane pleaded guilty last year to one charge of manslaughter and four charges of reckless driving causing injury. He is due to be sentenced on October 15.
