Bible verses, crypto trades and grief: Inside Deluny’s diaries
By Kate Green of RNZ
Julia DeLuney’s diaries, presented as evidence by the Crown during her month-long trial, reveal the highs and lows of cryptocurrency trading, her plans for a Remuera home to retire in, and her grief following the death of her mother.
DeLuney was found guilty of murdering Helen Gregory, 79, at the elderly woman’s home in Baroda St in Khandallah in January last year.
The Crown argued it had been a financially motivated attack, and that DeLuney had been receiving money – or at worst, stealing it – from her mother for at least a year before the murder.
Over the course of the trial, her diaries were presented as evidence of her emotional state and financial struggles.
They contained little reminders and…
