A man has pleaded guilty to murdering veteran New Zealand journalist Derek Round in May last year. He died from multiple skull fractures after being beaten.
Michael Umanui Werahiko was arrested the day after 77-year-old Round's body was discovered. He will be sentenced in August.
Round spent much of his career as a news agency journalist for the New Zealand Press Association (NZPA) and Reuters. He was one of the last New Zealand journalists to leave Saigon at the conclusion of the Vietnam war.
For five years in the 1980s, Round was NZPA's political editor in London and later the bureau chief.
Source:APNZ via Herald
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