Hungarian tourist killed gay man with banjo, court told

Wellington – A Hungarian tourist killed a 69-year-old gay man he met in a bar by beating him with a banjo and ramming the handle down his throat, police alleged when his murder trial opened in Auckland on Monday.

Ferdinand Ambach, 32, a dive master, pleaded not guilty in the Auckland High Court to murdering Ronald James Brown in December 2007.

Prosecutor Nick Williams told the court that Ambach had been in New Zealand a month when the pair met in a bar before going back to Brown’s flat in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga, the New Zealand Herald reported on its website.

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`Neo-Nazi’ beliefs behind Asian, gay murders

A white supremacist convicted of killing Korean backpacker Jae Hyeon Kim was also responsible for the murder of a homosexual Westport man in 1999 and will now spend at least 25 years behind bars.

Hayden Brent McKenzie, 31, appeared for sentencing in the High Court at Wellington yesterday after earlier admitting murdering Kim at Charleston, near Westport, in September or October 2003. McKenzie’s name suppression was lifted yesterday, but Justice Simon France made an order preventing publication of images of McKenzie or any description of his appearance.

The lifting of suppression means it can be revealed that in 2004 McKenzie was convicted and was four years into a life sentence for his part in the murder of James John (Janis) Bambrough in 1999 at Westport.

Yesterday, the judge sentenced McKenzie to another life sentence, this time with a non-parole period of 21 years.

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