However, it was when the teen boy hit a bottle over his head, with it smashing on the third time that it really hurt.Īfter being hit twice by a wine bottle, he said he swung his arms around in the dark and hit a person, before feeling hair and pulling the person - a teen girl - down towards him.
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"I thought the room was full of noises, 'where are your f****** keys, we've got a knife, we're going to knife ya, we're going to knife ya', and 'bang' on the head again." "I was asleep on my left side and next thing, I had a bang on my head and I just turned my head around and there was a torch shining in my eyes. William Bruce Burr, known as Bill, has told a jury in the High Court in Hamilton how he woke to a room full of noise after he was knocked on the head with a wine bottle and heard voices yelling for the keys to his car.īurr wears a Fitbit to bed each night and in questioning from his counsel Philip Morgan QC said it showed him waking at 1.45am on 1 October, 2020, and his heartbeat skyrocketing to about 111bpm, from around the 50s. He said he was woken to a room full of noise after he was knocked on the head with a wine bottle and voices yelling for the keys to his car. "He would have knifed me if I had given him the keys." 'Fitbit reveals spike in heartrate during tussle'Įarlier, the court heard how Burr snr's heartbeat more than doubled during a violent scuffle when woken up by the pair. "I had to keep myself from being killed."īurr snr said the teen wasn't holding the knife "to peel an apple". I knew that he would have associates, I knew they would be waiting outside. "I knew he was on bail from Auckland, I knew he didn't fly down. this is 150kg drugged up, his eyes were glazed. Rebecca Mann questioned Burr snr why he didn't tell the teen where the keys were, which she suggested would have solved the situation. "He told me he didn't mind being shot." 'This person was an animal' Shaun got it and chopped it off."Īsked what the boy did in response, he said "he just lay there". "So I picked up a bit of wood and I say to Shaun 'chop it off'. come on, stick your hand out, get that left hand out' and he wouldn't. "Shaun got the knife and just gave it a little cut at it. "I gave Shaun a knife and I say to Shaun 'cut his bloody finger off' unless he gets his hand out. He kept his right hand out but he still wouldn't comply so, 'get your hand out'. However, he became nervous about where the knife was and repeatedly asked him to put his hand out. "He dropped to the ground and Shaun kept on punching him." He smacked him, beautiful, right in the face. His son then arrived and they noticed the boy trying to stand up so he instructed Burr jnr to "smack him down". In taking the stand this afternoon, Burr snr said he knew the teen was hiding a knife under his body as he lay face down on the ground.ĭespite repeated requests for the teen to put both his hands out in front of him, he refused. Shaun got it and chopped it off," William Burr told a jury in the High Court at Hamilton today.
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