A Mongols MC gang member has been found guilty of manslaughter, while his daughter and a gang prospect have been acquitted, after the death of a Head Hunters associate at a New Year’s Eve party.
A jury took nearly eight hours to find senior Mongols figure Lyndon Paul Sheed, 43, not guilty of murdering Kane Wayman in the early hours of January 1 last year but guilty of manslaughter after a two-week trial at the High Court in Christchurch.
Mitchell Thomas McGregor Carston, 26, and Elizabeth “Liz” Adora Sheed, 26, were found not guilty by the jury, who returned from their deliberations just after 8pm last night.
The trio all denied murder, saying they had nothing to do with 46-year-old Wayman’s death and raised “serious questions” over his cause of death.
Defence lawyers picked holes in the account of a key Crown witness – who has name suppression – telling the jury the testimony had been unreliable and littered with inconsistencies and lies.
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