The Star: May 31, 2018

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site was completely cleared
last week.
A police spokeswoman
said police did not still
have an interest in the property.
“Police have not retained an interest
in this property, post the forensic
examination that was completed at
the time of the offending.”
The property is owned by
Harcourts International co-owner
Paul Wright. He did not want to
comment.
The murder accused is also
charged with unlawfully taking
Ms Tuxford’s car and entering the
property without permission with
a knife and using it as a weapon.
Nicole
Tuxford
Homicide house bulldozed
• By Bridget Rutherford
Details of the high-profile case
have been heavily suppressed in
THE MERIVALE house where a
the High Court.
27-year-old woman was allegedly
Earlier this month police ordered
the administrators of a web
murdered last month has been
demolished.
page to remove content relating
Nicole Marie Tuxford’s body
to the homicide because they
was found by a tradesman at the
breached suppression orders.
now demolished Exeter St house
The move prompted a warning
just before noon on April 7.
suppression orders are there for
A 54-year-old Aranui
a reason, and any further
man, who has name suppression,
has been charged
breaches may result in
prosecution.
with murder and sexual
In a statement released
violation. He has not yet
last month, Ms Tuxford’s
entered a plea.
family said they were “broken”
by the tragic loss.
The small wooden house
was demolished and the
“Nicky was a funny, bubbly
character who lit up a
room with her personality
and made other people
laugh. She loved people
and had ambitions to work as a
counsellor so she could help others.”
Ms Tuxford was originally from
Dunedin. She moved to Christchurch
after high school. She had
been working as an accounts manager
for an international logistics
company in Christchurch, before
becoming a life coach.
The murder accused has been
remanded in custody until his
next High Court appearance on
June 29.
GONE: The Exeter St house where Nicole Marie Tuxford
was allegedly murdered has been demolished.
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Shellfish
numbers
threatened
• By Sarla Donovan
COCKLE NUMBERS in the
Avon-Heathcote Estuary are in
serious decline.
A six-month study shows the
population has fallen dramatically
since a 2012 survey, from
around 400 per sq m to between
50 and 80 per sq m in some areas.
Biological sciences student
Stephanie Hampson has been
researching the extent and impact
of harvesting on the health
and sustainability of estuary
shellfish beds – an important
feeding ground for birds.
The results suggest the current
limit of 150 cockles per person
per day is too high and needs to
be reduced or even a ban put in
place, Ms Hampson said.
A survey of 100 estuary users
found some were collecting in
groups as large as nine; collectively
they could take more than
1000 cockles in one day and still
be within the limit.
Most people didn’t know what
the limit was.
Beds alongside the causeway
and yacht club were heavily
depleted.
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