“This is a case about relationships, relationships gone wrong, and their snowballing effects,” Fletcher said.įorensic evidence showed Arapo was dead before the fire started. Hayde’s alleged attack on his former partner has been characterised as a prelude to the killing of Arapo five weeks later.Ĭrown prosecutor Ned Fletcher described the killing as the crescendo of rising tensions driven by a tangled web of resentments and infidelities.

Hayde’s version described Hart telling Arapo, a fellow army veteran, “Goodbye brother” before stabbing him in the neck. Hart was Arapo’s flatmate.Īrapo, 27, was described as a popular and outgoing man who left behind a fiancé with whom he was planning to start a family.īoth men pleaded not guilty and gave evidence to describe two differing versions of how Arapo was killed. The Crown claimed the pair beat Arapo to death after simmering tensions fuelled by resentments, jealousies and infidelities came to the boil.Īrapo was once Hayde’s boxing tutor and friend but the pair were cast as love rivals in the trial, both vying for the attention of the same woman. “It would apply in this case that, at the time the fatal blows were inflicted on the deceased, both defendants were actively involved in the assault on him.”

Justice Venning said that, even if one of the men did not deliver the fatal blow, he could still be guilty if he intentionally or deliberately participated in the assault at the same time as another who delivered the fatal strike. Part of the way through their lengthy deliberations, the jurors asked the judge for clarity about how a defendant could be liable as a party to an offence.

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