Mr Bacon had been described by his family as “a nightmare” while using illicit substances, Mr Andersen said. There was a difference, Mr Andersen said, between knowing a blow could kill someone and considering it “in the heat of the moment”. Mr Smith said it may have been a “stand-over gone wrong”; an intimidatory bid to steal money from Mr Bacon that went too far. “It wasn't Mr Collins trying to defend himself, it was Mr Bacon,” he told the jury of six men and six women. “Mr Collins kept hitting Mr Bacon until the bat broke.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 01, 2021 02:03 UTC