Auckland, Feb 24 NZPA - A High Court jury took less than an hour today to find a 26-year-old man guilty of murdering a teenager in South Auckland 2-1/2 years ago.

Wellington, Feb 24 NZPA - A 26-year old man has been found guilty in the High Court at Auckland today of the murder of a teen in south Auckland in September 2006.

The Crown alleged Jeffrey Alailima Key bludgeoned Riki Mafi, 17, to death in an attack in Otara town centre.

Auckland, Feb 23 NZPA - The lawyer for a man on trial for murdering a teenager in south Auckland says he did not have murderous intent and there was reasonable doubt whether he struck the fatal blow.

Auckland, Feb 9 NZPA - A teenager in the wrong place at the wrong time was murdered in a South Auckland suburb by brutal strikes to his head from a metal baseball bat wielded by Jeffrey Alailima Key, a jury has been told today.

Auckland, Feb 9 NZPA - A jury has been chosen today for the trial of a 26-year-old man charged with murdering a teenager in south Auckland in 2006.

Jeffrey Key will stand trial in the High Court at Auckland accused of murdering Riki Mafi, 17, in Otara town centre in September 2006.