Trevor Phillip Goffe was critically injured when he tried to break up a fight in Gibbons Rd, Weymouth,
A 60-year-old man is dead and a teenager has been charged with manslaughter following a serious assault earlier in February.
Detective senior sergeant Veronica McPherson said Trevor Phillip Goffe, from Weymouth in south Auckland, had been critically injured after he intervened in an “altercation” with a group of youths on February 13, about 1am.
The incident happened on Gibbons Rd, also in Weymouth, and Goffe died five days later in Middlemore Hospital.
“Mr Goffe’s death is a complete tragedy and our deepest thoughts and sympathies are with his family at this difficult time,” McPherson said.
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A 17-year-old boy had been charged with Goffe’s manslaughter and will appear in the Youth Court on March 2.
“As this matter is now before the courts, we are unable to comment further.”
New Zealand’s Homicide Toll
At least 14 people have died in suspicious or homicidal circumstances in New Zealand so far in 2020.
At the same time last year there had been 12 suspected homicides.
Last year’s toll closed at 127, according to data compiled by The Homicide Report, an ongoing Stuff investigation into why New Zealanders kill.
That number includes the 51 people killed in the March Christchurch terror attack.
The 2018 toll was 76, the worst since 2009 when 94 people were killed.
On average there are 70 homicides in New Zealand each year.
The Homicide Report shows that at least 1138 people – 306 women 632 men and 200 young people – have been killed in New Zealand since January 1, 2004.
That figure includes police shootings, hunting accidents, and car crashes where someone is prosecuted for murder or manslaughter.
New Zealand’s homicide rate of 1.6 per 100,000 people is well below the OECD average of 3.6 per 100,000.
Note: The data is provisional and may change depending on the outcome of investigations / court cases.
