Fri 14 Oct 2011 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback View at NDHA
3.40PM: “I ain't bloody gay, fuck that shit” was the response of teenage murder-accused Willie Ahsee when police asked him if there was ever any sexual contact or suggestion of it between him and the gay man he fatally stabbed in Papakura. The 17-year-old was aged 16 in July last year when he gave the statement to Detective Sergeant Christopher Barry at the Manukau Police Station, in an interview that was recorded onto DVD and is being shown to the jury at his murder trial at the High Court in Auckland. “I went blank, I had blood on my hands, he was on the ground, and I just left the house,” is what he told police of his memory of leaving gay temporary sworn police officer Denis Phillips' house on 30 July last year. He said he had gone to Phillips' house that afternoon and pumped weights, gone for a run around a nearby field, did some boxing training and benching for about two to three hours. The pair then started drinking and Ahsee said a couple of hours later was when he blacked out. He recalled he had met 59-year-old Phillips through a friend four weeks earlier, and started using Phillips' home-gym twice a week. “We would just pump weights for a couple of hours and I would just gap,” he said to Detective Sergeant Barry. He added he thought Phillips was in his 30s or 40s and told him “he was a marine and in the Army and that”. When asked whether there was any physical contact he said no, and when asked if there was any sexual contact or suggestion of it he replied “I ain't bloody gay, fuck that shit”.Ahsee admits stabbing Phillips, but denies murdering him. GayNZ.com's in-court coverage will continue throughout each day of the trial which resumes on Monday.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Friday, 14th October 2011 - 3:42pm