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THE GOOD OIL
June 4, 2026
> A gang member who killed a harmless man in “an act of thuggery” has been jailed for seven years in a cold case that culminated in Napier High Court.
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> Erueti Wirihana, 29, a patched Mongrel Mob member, was sentenced on Thursday for the manslaughter of Eddie Peters and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
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> Peters, 45, was found critically injured in a pool of blood on a Hastings street just after midnight on November 16, 2018. He died one week later in Wellington Hospital.
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> The police investigation into Peters’ death was painstaking, and was the subject of a piece on the TV series Cold Case in 2022.
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> In July last year police arrested and charged Wirihana. In April he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and perverting the course of justice.
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