NZ man’s accused killer in court

10:48AM Saturday Oct 31, 2009

An Australian man charged with the murder of a New Zealander who died in 1997 three years after being attacked and robbed in Sydney has been remanded in custody.

David Ronald George Bartley, of Tweeds Head, in northern New South Wales, was refused bail when he appeared in Tweed Heads Court yesterday, charged with murdering Peter Norman Golley, robbery in company, and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm.

Bartley was arrested on Thursday 15 years after 54-year-old Mr Golley was attacked in the Sydney suburb of Canterbury.

He was taken to Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital with severe head injuries and placed on life support.

Five months later, he was transferred to Christchurch, where he died in July 1997.

Earlier this year, Detective Sergeant Nigel Hughes, of Christchurch CIB, told a New Zealand inquest NSW police determined two people had been involved in the attack.

Mesu Duwai was convicted of robbing and wounding Mr Golley and jailed for eight years. He was released in early 1998, and deported to Fiji.