Mark Lundy

Lundy was twice convicted of the brutal 2000 killings of his wife Christine and daughter Amber.

He said it was his “biggest regret” that the funeral wasn’t videoed. Asked how he would fund this, Lundy said out of his own capital. A corrections manager sitting beside Lundy was asked about the safety plan.

The man twice convicted of murdering his wife and daughter, who still denies involvement, is seemingly close to leaving prison.

He was quizzed about his drinking habits. Not drinking is not an issue.” [did not get a fair trial for various reasons](http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/98078774/four-key-points-from-mark-lundys-court-of-appeal-hearing), including the [perception the public had of him](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/97994140/petrol-public-perception-to-be-covered-at-mark-lundys-appeal?rm=m) after [seeing infamous photos and video of him openly grieving at the funeral of his wife and daughter](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300089723/lundy-murders-20-years-on-friend-who-propped-up-a-sobbing-mark-lundy-says-funeral-grief-genuine). [successfully appealed his case to the Privy Council in 2013](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/9253570/Mark-Lundy-murder-convictions-quashed), with a retrial ordered and Lundy put on bail. He took his case to the Court of Appeal in 2018 where his lawyer said Lundy I’m not in my 20s anymore. Any media attention would be funnelled through his lawyer, while he had experience with a member of the public getting in his face while he was on bail between 2013 and 2015. The board made mention of Lundy getting accolades for carpentry work in prison – his father was a carpenter – but he was quick to defer to others. [with Lundy having to be supported outside](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300089723/lundy-murders-20-years-on-friend-who-propped-up-a-sobbing-mark-lundy-says-funeral-grief-genuine), became infamous, with many claiming he was faking grief after being charged with the murders. He was first convicted of the crimes in 2002, released from prison on bail after a successful appeal in 2013, but put back in prison after he was again found guilty after a 2015 retrial. - He has been a model inmate, but the Parole Board was concerned about the lack of a safety plan for his release - He was convicted of the murders at a trial in 2002, then again at a retrial in 2015 after he successfully appealed to the Privy Council

Mark Lundy has been declined parole today after serving his minimum term of 20 years for the murders of his wife and daughter in Palmerston North. At Tongariro ...

The first shot at parole has been denied for convicted murder Mark Lundy, with the next chance coming up in nine months.

A concurrent appeal to the Supreme Court was dismissed at the end of that same year. The board then questioned his case manager as to why he had not worked on a safety plan. This included the barely digested meal from McDonald's in the victims’ stomachs and the testimony of a self-described psychic who said she saw a fat person in a blond curly wig running away from the area at around 7pm that Tuesday night. “So to the best of my knowledge, a safety plan is based around those triggers and how to avoid them. Lundy said he had a good amount of friends there, but they would have to come visit him elsewhere. I have no memory of the funeral and that really upset me,” he said. Christine and I might have nothing one week and out three nights the next,” he said. and there is nothing I can say to alleviate that for you,” he said. Lundy detailed his plans for life upon release, saying he would like to start attending services at an Anglican church and doing carpentry with charity Men’s Shed. “Whilst Covid is often cited now as a reason, this is by no means a new problem and one that blighted many parole applications in the past.” I would like a date,” he said. “We support him and love him and we’ll keep up the fight.

The whole nation was transfixed by scenes of big, tall Mark Lundy being held up as he broke down at the funeral of his wife and child, only to be jailed for ...

Lundy himself had volunteered this was the shirt he had been wearing on the night in question, and under the microscope it went. Whilst the Crown pointed to a recent increase in both of their life insurances, it was agreed by the broker this was at his behest, and that the Lundys had not increased the amount as much as he had first suggested as they thought the repayments would be too great. These comments, however, were not passed over to the defence, and only came to public attention when they were released around the time of Lundy’s first conviction being quashed at the Privy Council. Instead of, as in the first case, claiming Lundy had manipulated the home computer to show a different shut down time, at the retrial the Crown said it hadn’t been tampered with after all. In August that same year he took the conviction to the Court of Appeal, but was unsuccessful. DNA was also found under the fingernails of both Christine and Amber, which remains unidentified. The Privy Council raised three main flaws with the Crown’s case, including questions over forensic testing methods used to analyse specks of tissue found on the polo shirt Lundy said he was wearing that night, which the Crown posited was brain matter from Christine. Evidence was given by Mr M who confirmed he offered to cover all costs that Lundy had incurred which was $100,000 excluding the penalty interest on the land. It alleged Lundy drove from Petone to Palmerston North where he murdered Christine and Amber sometime between 7pm and 7.15pm, before making the return trip to his motel - all within a three-hour window. The whole nation was transfixed by scenes of big, tall Mark Lundy being held up as he broke down at the funeral of his wife and child, only to be jailed for their murder less than two years later. Lundy’s team said all of this evidence negates the Crown’s theory. At 11.30 pm he called an escort agency, something he had done before on other trips, and spent an hour in his motel room with a prostitute.