The wife of murder-accused Ewen Macdonald asked him how he could hate someone enough to want to burn their house down.
Giving evidence at the High Court in Wellington this afternoon, Anna Macdonald said when she found out her husband had admitted to arson, she had a lot of questions.
“When he was arrested, I had a lot of questions on why things happened and how he felt, I obviously didn’t know.”
“So I said to him, ‘Why did you do this?’ How can you hate someone to do what he did with the arson and the graffiti.”
Anna Macdonald said her husband replied saying he didn’t hate them and had done it “for a bit of fun and just to annoy them".
She added there was nothing unusual in his behaviour the day after the arson and she noticed no changes in him when they talked about it.
In an interview with police after the murder of Scott Guy, Macdonald admitted to crimes of intimidation directed at Mr Guy and his wife Kylee.
But he maintains he did not kill his brother-in-law.
- Watch the video for Anna Macdonald in court
- Ewen Macdonald police interview - Part 1
- Ewen Macdonald police interview - Part 2
- Ewen Macdonald police interview - Part 3
Macdonald told police there wouldn’t be any reason for him to kill Mr Guy, and that he’d had to work harder on the family farm since his death.
The jury has spent the day listening to evidence about three Labrador puppies that went missing around the time of Mr Guy’s death.
The Crown alleges Macdonald killed the puppies to distract police and make the murder look like a botched robbery.
Kylee Guy gave evidence today about the litter of puppies she and her husband had attempted to sell in the Feilding area, handing out fliers to shop owners including Macdonald’s father Kerry.
When three of the puppies disappeared, Macdonald called an off-duty police detective to report it.
Detective Sergeant Gary Milligan said Macdonald called him after feeding the puppies to say there were only four, where there should have been seven.
Mr Milligan says Macdonald also told him there were originally eight puppies but one had died. It had actually been gifted by Scott and Kylee to their family friend Jo Moss.
In evidence giving this morning, Mr Guy’s sister Nikki said she visited the home of Macdonald and his wife Anna and the trio discussed whether the missing puppies could have had anything to do with the murder.
“We were theorising about who would have taken the puppies,” she said, adding Macdonald was “very animated” when he told them he had been to tell police of the missing pups.
The police told Macdonald and Nikki Guy not to tell anyone about the puppies, not even Kylee.
‘Come over, Scotty’s been killed’
Kylee Guy was hysterical when she called a close family friend and told them her husband had just been killed.
Jo Moss was the first person Kylee rang when she realised something had happened to her husband on the morning of July 8, 2010.
Ms Moss says Kylee was hysterical but coherent on the phone.
“She said I had to come over because Scotty had been killed,” Ms Moss told the High Court in Wellington this morning.
“I was still in my PJs. I asked my husband if he would come, asked if he would follow me out in ute.”
She says she was stopped at the cordon and couldn’t make it to the Guy’s house, adding that Ewen Macdonald – the man who would later be charged with Mr Guy’s murder - came up to her while she was in her car.
“I remember saying to him ‘Is Scotty dead?’ and he said ‘yes he is dead’.”
Ms Moss was the recipient of one of the Chocolate Labrador puppies that Mr and Mrs Guy had on the farm. She had first pick of the litter and didn’t have to pay for it.
The court has heard the puppies had a price tag of $700 each.
Dad’s last words: ‘I’ll see you in the morning’
Bryan Guy’s last words to his son before he was murdered at the end of his driveway were “I’ll see you in the morning”.
Giving evidence in court this morning, Bryan Guy recalled the last time he saw his son alive; after he had helped him move a kennel and some Chocolate Labrador puppies into the old cowshed.
“The last thing I said to Scott was ‘I’ll see you in the morning’ and then I drove down the driveway,” he said, voice trembling.
The pair had walked around the old cowshed and discussed repainting it and replacing the gutters.
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