One of the two teenagers accused of murdering Wellington journalist Phillip
Cottrell will stay behind bars for another six weeks after a suggested bail
address was rejected as unsuitable.
Nicho Waipuka, 19, has so far failed in his bids for bail, despite his
co-accused, Manuel Robinson, 17, being granted bail before Christmas.
The youths were arrested after Mr Cottrell, 43, a Radio New Zealand
journalist, was found bashed in a central Wellington street in December. He died
in hospital the next day.
Waipuka applied for electronically monitored bail in Wellington District
Court on Wednesday but the proposed address posed problems for the equipment,
the New Zealand Herald reported.
An alternative address will be sought and Waipuka will appear again on March
28.