Scott Guy’s body was “limp and flat” as it lay on the driveway where he was shot, the man accused of murdering him told police two weeks after the killing.
Ewen Macdonald is on trial at the High Court in Wellington charged with Mr Guy’s murder. He denies killing him with a shot gun on the morning of July 8, 2010.
Detective Graeme Parsons is reading Macdonald’s second police statement, made 14 days after the murder.
“I could see obvious blood around Scott’s head area. He looked limp and flat,” he told police.
“I didn’t want to look at him anymore.”
Macdonald said he didn’t get close enough to see Mr Guy’s injury, so did not know how he was killed. He said it was Mr Guy’s father Bryan who told people he had been shot.
However, the court heard last week that the first man on the scene, neighbour David Berry, was adamant Mr Guy’s throat had been slit, not shot, and Macdonald was telling people at the cordon that Mr Guy had been shot.
Macdonald says it was later that morning the discussion came up about how Mr Guy was killed.
“I recall Bryan said he had been shot. I said I didn’t get close enough to see.”
Macdonald the murder target?
Macdonald told police the murder may have been directed at the wrong person and perhaps he was the target, not Mr Guy.
He told police two weeks after the murder that someone must have had it in for someone on the Guy family farm.
“[The murderer] must have had a grudge.... Shit, maybe it was it meant to be me,” he told police.
“I rang my father and he said he didn’t think so.”
Macdonald told police there was a legal battle between Bryan Guy and the milk supplier, and maybe the murder was because of that.
He also said (Mr Guy's sister) Nikki Guy’s former boyfriend might have a grudge against the family because they told him he wasn’t welcome in their home.
Macdonald said Nikki and her boyfriend had turned up to babysit the kids but he and Anna - Mr Guy's sister - asked them to leave.
He said the boyfriend thought Macdonald and his wife were trying to “break them up”.
Macdonald’s statement to police also reveals he had good knowledge of the security arrangements at Mr Guy’s residence, including a sensor near the entry to his driveway and security cameras in a nearby shed.
He knew of alarms and security lights on Mr Guy’s property and said Mr Guy was on high security alert after an arson on the farm, and vandalism and graffiti on their house while it was being built.
Scott bought gun for protection
He said Mr Guy had purchased a shot gun for protection because he “wasn’t going to take any shit from anyone” in relation to security.
He was on high alert because there had been an arson on his property and his new house had been ransacked and vandalised.
Mr Guy even paid his younger brother Callum and farm worker Matthew Ireland to stay on the property at night and keep vigil in case the house was attacked again.
Since his arrest, Macdonald has pleaded guilty to both the arson of the old farm house and vandalising their new house while under construction.
In the statement, Macdonald misled police, saying he was in Ruakaka when the vandalism and graffiti happened and was at home with his wife Anna when the arson happened.
Police are expected to reveal a video of the interview they had with Macdonald when he admitted he was responsible for the arson and vandalism.
The Crown says he committed those crimes in an attempt to drive Mr Guy and his wife Kylee off the farm.
They say after intimidation attempts failed, Macdonald waited in the dark at the end of their driveway and killed him 18 months later.
Ammunition in hot water cupboard
Various types of firearm ammunition was stored in different locations around the Guy family farm and on Macdonald’s property, including his hot water cupboard, a court has heard.
Detective Graeme Parsons carried out an inspection of the farm areas in the days after Mr Guy was murdered.
Mr Parsons has listed the areas where ammunition, especially the type used for shot guns, was stored on the farm.
Ammunition was kept in a locked safe in the farm office, in a locked cabinet in the farm garage, in Macdonald’s own safe in his garage, in a banana box on top of the safe and in Macdonald’s hot water cupboard.
Along with shot gun ammo, there was also ammunition for rifles in some of those locations, the court has heard.
Macdonald has been described as a keen hunter and went after deer, possums and duck – sometimes using shot guns which he had borrowed from his dad’s hunting shop or the farm.
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