Warning: This report includes disturbing details of violence that will upset listeners.
Northland woman Bridget Simmonds warned she would soon die just before she went missing.
The 42-year-old mother-of-two disappeared in March 2019, and her partner at the time is on trial for her murder.
The Crown alleges he punched Ms Simmonds and hit her with a tree branch, then buried her body.
Sam Olley was in court in Whangārei today.
