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Speaker 1: Now the murder trial in the case of the real

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Speaker 1: estate agent who was killed Jan Feibao has started in

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Speaker 1: the High Court in christ Church today. The Crown says

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Speaker 1: that Tinjun Choo murdered Bell. He denies it. Newstalk ZB

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Speaker 1: reporter Emily Ansel has been in court today. Emily, Hello, Hello, Emily.

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Speaker 1: We don't actually know very much about this guy. We

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Speaker 1: don't know very much about what his motive might have been.

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Speaker 1: Has the Crown said anything about it today?

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Speaker 2: Es? They have today. We all went in a little

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Speaker 2: bit blind. But the Crown's opening address from Prosecutor Cameron Stewart,

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Speaker 2: they said that he said that both Bao and Cow

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Speaker 2: knew each other through exchanges on the Chinese messaging at

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Speaker 2: Lui Tat. It appeared Thoo was helping Cal find Choo sorry,

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Speaker 2: find a job. There needs to have been in New

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Speaker 2: Zealand for a few months. And the Crown then argued

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Speaker 2: that Choo had potentially lured Boo to a house for

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Speaker 2: sale on Trevors Street, which he said he was interested

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Speaker 2: in seeing and she said was available. It's there that

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Speaker 2: the Crown say she was assaulted. That's what we heard

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Speaker 2: sort of so far about their relationship. However, one thing

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Speaker 2: to note is miss Stewart said the Crown doesn't actually

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Speaker 2: need to prove motives here. However, her remains suggested, or

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Speaker 2: a photo rather that they found on mister Chelesbone suggested

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Speaker 2: there may have been a sexual element based on this

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Speaker 2: photo which is of a body of a female.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now it took them that this is the police.

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Speaker 1: It took them more than a year to actually find

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Speaker 1: her body, and eventually they found her in a shallow grave.

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Speaker 1: Do we know how they managed to find her?

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Speaker 2: We do now know a little bit more so. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: as you say, the grave is pretty shallow, just fifteen

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Speaker 2: centimeters along a tree line of private farmland that farmland

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Speaker 2: had already been searching. So the difference here or the

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Speaker 2: discovery was to do with the break through on miss

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Speaker 2: Spell's phone. The phone itself was only sort of partially

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Speaker 2: looked at or investigated or able to be extracted initially

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Speaker 2: by police because of a protective pin number, But then

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Speaker 2: this was figured out a few months before her body

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Speaker 2: was found, and from there they were able to actual

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Speaker 2: data such as Apple health data, which ended up recording

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Speaker 2: the exact number of steps taken by the person with

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Speaker 2: her phone after she was last seen across the farmland

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Speaker 2: and around that tree line area where she was found,

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Speaker 2: so that was a pretty significant development.

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Speaker 1: Emily, thank you for running us through. Emily Ansel, News

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Speaker 1: Talk Ziba Reporter.

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