"The drug case went wrong": the High Court trial begins after the man was killed in the "five or six" minutes

CCTV captured a "five or six" shot that left a dead man on a "drug deal gone bad," a court heard.

Gabriel Hikari Yad-Elohim is tried for murder by jury and justice Gerard van Bohemen at the Auckland High Court

The bloody body of Michael David Mulholland was found in the staircase of the apartments of Western Springs where he lived on September 26th.

Yad-Elohim, 30, Arrested at

In his opening remarks, Crown Attorney Kirsten Lummis described the murder as a "drug deal gone awry"

"[Yad-Elohim] wanted to get his hands on The choice was methamphetamine and cannabis.

Lummis said that it was Yad-Elohim's desire to obtain drugs that led to the "fatal events of this evening".

"The accused beat Mr. Mulholland to death." The Japanese and his lead counsel, Annabel Cresswell, defend the prosecution and the attack was sustained and brutal, Lummis said, with Mulholland suffering several kicks and kicks to the head.

Mulholland was 69 years old and weighed only 67 kg – "No match for a young fitter Mr. Yad-Elohim," Lummis said.

The identity of his killer was never discussed, Yad-Elohim killed Mulholland – CCTV filming all the assault.

The Herald was removed by Judge van Bohemen, but shows Mulholland being "promptly rendered unconscious," Lummis said: "The attack lasts for a few minutes, it does not happen. is not brief, about five or six minutes, "she added, also describing the splash of blood on the walls of the stairwell.

" It's a bit an unusual murder trial that capture all the incident on CCTV … this is not nice.The Crown can describe the you must see it for yourself, "Lummis said at Jury

The prosecutor argued that Yad-Elohim was motivated by having been robbed that in a drug deal, with Mulholland unable to give him the medications that he wanted.

"A drug deal went wrong, Mr. Yad-Elohim Lummis conceded that Yad-Elohim had suffered mental health problems in the last ten years and had been treated after voluntarily attending Auckland City Hospital a few days before Mulholland's death 19659002] Herald previously revealed that Yad-Elohim was a patient at the Acute Mental Health Unit from the Auckland District Health Board, Te Whetu Tawera

Herald sources said that he had been released from his care "In September of last year, he was sick, "said Lummis, adding that Yad-Elohim was a patient in the Acute Mental Health Unit of the Auckland City Hospital.

But, Lummis argu the use Yad-Elohim's drugs led to the murder and he was well enough to be released from medical care. 9659002] "This [drug use] obviously did not help to help these mental health problems," she said. A urine test in September showed traces of methamphetamine and cannabis, she told the court.

The jury, consisting of three women and nine men, will hear several witnesses who were with Yad-Elohim on September 26th. he was crazy at the time of the murder.

Lummis described the case as "crazy, strange, misguided" but stated that Yad-Elohim was not legally insane.

The trial continues.