<strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Wednesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 8 NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz 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. Variety Theatre Ashburton Presents PopZilla Director/Choreographer Jessie Thomson Musical Director Jo Castelow 9, 10, 11 & 12, November <strong>2023</strong> Ashburton Event Centre RESTAURANT & CAFÉ ‘Famous for their roasts!’ WEEKEND BRUNCH SATURDAY & SUNDAY 8.30am-2pm AMAZING SELECTION PLUS A SPECIAL KID'S MENU $ FROM 20 FAMILY FRIENDLY SENIOR'S LUNCH SPECIAL Great Kids menu plus designated play room $<strong>25</strong> Two courses Soup/Roast or Roast/Dessert $13 Kid’s Special Two courses Lunch only Monday - Saturday 12pm - 2.30pm Conditions apply RESTAURANT & CAFÉ The RACECOURSE HOTEL & Motorlodge 118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn, Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150 www.racecoursehotel.co.nz
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