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  •   Home > News > National > Christchurch

    We can now name the man charged with murdering a Christchurch woman, who was isolating at home with Covid-19

    We can now name the man charged with murdering a Christchurch woman, who was isolating at home with Covid-19


    64 year-old Valerie Heaney's body was found in her Bromley home in May.

    At Christchurch District Court today, name suppression lifted on Elliot Ajay Prakash, a 43 year-old who was known to Heaney.

    Heaney had worked as a carer at a service provider for people with intellectual disabilities.

    She had been running her home as a boarding house since the death of her husband 13 years ago.

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