NZ boxer shouldn’t be at Games: Howard
Prime Minister John Howard believes a New Zealand boxer jailed for the manslaughter of his five-month-old daughter should not compete in the March Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
In 1995 Kiwi Soulan Pownceby, then known as Soulan Rikihana, was sentenced to four years in prison for the manslaughter death of his five-month-old daughter Jeanette.
Following his release from prison in 1998, he accumulated several more assault charges.
Pownceby, who competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics, has been selected in New Zealand’s six-man Games boxing team. This will be his first Commonwealth Games.
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