Man pleads guilty to Christchurch murder

DAVID CLARKSON
Last updated 10:25 10/10/2012

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A 29-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the murder of a woman at a Burwood house on July 11.

The Kaiapoi farmhand entered his guilty plea in a Christchurch District Court sitting before Judge Tony Couch this morning.

The man has been in custody and has had a psychiatric report completed in the weeks after the arrest.

His name and the name of the woman he murdered have been suppressed since his arrest - at the request of police - and Judge Couch continued those orders today.

The orders will continue until a decision is made about them at his sentencing in the High Court which is set for November 22.

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