8 Jun 2022

Woman fighting for husband's body after whānau take it away

From Checkpoint, 5:15 pm on 8 June 2022

A woman is vowing to fight to get her husband back after his body was forcibly taken from their home in Wellington over the weekend by his whānau, to be taken back to his marae.

54-year-old Tommy Murray died suddenly at a boxing gym last week in Lower Hutt. His wife Sara, who he married in 2008, took him home to their house in Naenae to lie before his cremation, saying that is what he wanted.

Māni Dunlop has been covering the story and joins Lisa Owen with the details.