Selwyn_Times: October 25, 2023

Selwyn Times Wednesday October 25 2023
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Patched Mongols MC member denied
appeal following fatal gangpad bashing
• By Hazel Osborne
A PATCHED Mongols MC
member involved in a gang-pad
killing on New Year’s Eve has
been denied an appeal on his
sentence and conviction for his
part in the fatal beating.
Lyndon Paul Sheed was found
guilty last year of manslaughter
after standing trial for the killing
of Kane Wayman, who was
beaten at the Mongols MC gangpad
in Burnham and died on
New Year’s Day, 2021.
Sheed was initially charged
with murder, but found guilty
of manslaughter and later sentenced
in the High Court to five
years and six months imprisonment.
He has since been denied his
appeal against conviction and
sentence, with the Court of
Appeal stating in their recently
released decision they did not
accept the grounds put forward
by the convicted killer.
The jury found Sheed had
administered the fatal blow to
Wayman’s head that night when
he was attacked for allegedly
disrespecting people at the party
and acting out.
Wayman, who was 46 at the
APPEAL: Lyndon Sheed (centre) during his trial in the High
Court.
PHOTO: KURT BAYER
time, had been attacked by three
men, including Sheed, after he
was “ejected” from the gangpad.
He was punched and kicked,
even when he lay defenceless on
the ground.
He was driven to the hospital
by a woman he had been seeing.
Battered and badly injured he
was laid out on the back seat of a
car and driven to Christchurch
hospital where he was pronounced
dead.
His body showed signs of an
assault, including facial, head
and neck injuries and a pathologist
found his cause of death to
be blunt head trauma and neck
compression injuries on the
background of heart problems
and methamphetamine use.
“In (the pathologist’s) opinion,
the degree of post-mortem
changes suggested he was dead
or actively dying before he was
placed in the car,” the decision
said.
The woman who drove him,
Penny Poihipi, said Sheed had
come to the driver’s window before
leaving for the hospital and
said “(you) f******* hear nothing,
you f****** see nothing. Did you
hear?”
Poihipi was a key witness
in the trial, and had identified
Sheed, who she had slept with
that night, as the man who administered
a “king hit”.
Sheed’s daughter Liz and Mongols
prospect Mitchell Carston
also who stood trial for Wayman’s
death, and were acquitted
of murder at the trial last year.
Sheed’s lawyer Len Andersen
KC put forward three grounds
when appealing the 2022 conviction
at a hearing in August this
year.
Andersen argued there was
no admissible identification of
Sheed, Poihipi’s account of the
fatal punch was not reliable, and
the evidence did not prove the
blow caused the man’s death.
A reduction in his sentence
of five years and six months
was also sought by Andersen,
claiming the time given should
have been no more than four
years and in line with other “one
punch” manslaughter cases.
Andersen said an allowance
should have been made for
“personal mitigating factors”,
including learning difficulties,
familial disconnection and poor
role-modelling in early life.
“We do not accept these submissions,”
the court said in the
decision.
They went on to state they were
not persuaded the sentencing
judge was wrong when denying
discounts for personal mitigating
factors, describing the connection
between that and his offending
as “weak”.
“The (cultural) report states
that Mr Sheed attributes the
offending to intoxication at the
time and his responsibility as the
gang member ‘on watch’ to ‘sort
it out’. However, his intoxication
at the time is not a mitigating
factor,” the decision said.
Sheed joined the Mongols in
2012. Wayman was not connected
to the gang and, according
to the decision, may have
met Sheed just one time before
he died.
ATTACKED: Kane Wayman
died on January 1, 2021.
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