A Kaikoura man facing a charge of intent to injure after he hit another man in the head with a log splitter admitted the charge minutes before his second jury trial on the same charge was about to begin.
Jonathan George Willis, 30, pleaded guilty at the Blenheim District Court in the eleventh hour, before his jury trial was to begin on August 16.
Willis was remanded on bail and will be sentenced in the Blenheim District Court on September 23. The plea came as the jury for Willis' second trial was still being chosen.
In April, another jury was unable to decide a verdict after a 2 1/2 day trial and about 10 hours of deliberation.
Willis was charged after Brian "Joe" Corke, also of Kaikoura, claimed he was hit with the log splitter on the right side of his head. Mr Corke was left with a fractured skull and could not work for a year.
The Marlborough Express
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