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Murder accused lived with girlfriend's body, court told

By CLIO FRANCIS - Stuff.co.nz Last updated 10:39 02/11/2009



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An Auckland computer programmer strangled his girlfriend to death then lived with her decomposing body for nearly a month, a court has been told.
Gordon Hieatt, 48, is accused of murdering his "on-again, off again" girlfriend Nuttidar Vaikaew, 48, between April 17 and May 12 this year.
Thai national Ms Vaikaew, known as "Sky", worked as a prostitute out of her flat in Warwick Street, Western Springs prior to her death. The court heard that Hieatt had moved in with her several months before the incident.
At a depositions hearing at the Auckland District Court this morning prosecutor Rachael Reed said the accused had killed his girlfriend after having an argument with her in early April.
Ms Vaikaew had not been seen by neighbours or her landlord for nearly a month and so on the afternoon of May 12 her landlord, Ray Goffin, went to visit her home.
After knocking several times on the door of Ms Vaikaew's flat, Hieatt answered the door and said to Mr Goffin, "I am Gordon, Nuttidar's boyfriend, Nuttidar is sick and she has been sick for a few days".
Mr Goffin became suspicious and rang police, Ms Reed told the court.
When police arrived at the home and enquired after Ms Vaikaew, Hieatt answered the door and told them: "She's dead and has been dead for four weeks. We had an argument and I killed her," the court heard.
Police discovered her body in the bed in the lounge room, covered by sheets and bedding, Ms Reed said.
Later Hieatt told police he had "choked" Ms Vaikaew on April 17. "He said they had an argument and it got out of hand," Ms Reed said.
The police will call nine witnesses over the two-day depositions hearing.
Accused 'lived with rotting body' | Stuff.co.nz

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i'd rather have a phlebotomy than a full frontal lobotomy

natalie8

Geesh! This guy is massively f*cked up. I wonder what his punisment will be.

genghis61

If convicted of murder in NZ - sentence starts at 10 years imprisonment; last month a high profile case was finalised - a uni lecturer stabbed his gf/former student 216 times, extreme violence, got 18yrs before parole.
For manslaughter which may be more likely in this case, a slap on the hand and a social worker . . .

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Rural Surin

Living with himself.

Spitfire

Twilight Zone sort of stuff that is. Freaking nut job.

larvidchr

48 year old prostitute!! cream of the crop there in Auckland, anyway RIP to the Lady.

nedwalk

^yea mate then kiwis don,t mine a bit of mutton

panama hat

Seriously deranged man . . .

Umm, why is a 48-year old woman referred to as 'gal'?

Whiteshiva

Maybe there were financial reasons why he did what he did:

There was an young man from Belgrade
who kept a dead whore in a cave
He said "I agree,
it's nasty of me,
But think of the money I save!"

MustavaMond

There's some kind of bizarre rule about adult females having to be diminished to Gal or more usually , Girl whenever sex is involved.
( see above flashing banner for instance..)

Yes, at age 48 , one would think she deserves full adult status. Alas , it is not to be.

Davis Knowlton

Must have been smelling a bit ripe in there after a month of decomposition.

Nawty

giddyup o'l gal....i expect

Mr R Sole

^ That's what i was thinking....nasty..

the dogcatcher

No. I you freeze em you can thaw them out a couple of times a week for sex and they last for months. Must say GF is getting a bit whiffy now, time for a freshy me thinks. Goody goody.

StrontiumDog

Classy dogcatcher, real classy.....

Yikes! He's one scary fucked up weirdo.

What kind of deranged mind could tolerate such a situation...ok, I know, a murdering nutjob kind of mind, but really, this is beyond fucking grim.

Smug Farang Bore

Should have left her on the sofa, a non moving Thai nobody would have noticed For years.
Put a bowl of somtam in front of her and HEY PRESTO the smells delt with.

the dogcatcher

I tried the somtam thing but the smell was too bad, of the somtam I mean.

Bung

I just got back from 6 weeks in NZ and after watching the local news each night this sort of thing doesn't surprise me in the least. Some seriously weird shit happens there regularly.