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Landlord to pay $5000 over tenant death

Tuesday 22nd of July 2014

Nineteen-year-old Lesley Wehi-Jack died after the cooker in her Ruakaka house exploded in February last year.

She had been in the home for five days when a spark from a switch ignited a gas leak.

Seventy-three-year-old landlord Peter John McLeod appeared in Whangarei District Court and was ordered to pay $5000. He pleaded guilty to undertaking an unauthorised gas fitting, failin...

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