 Guilty ... a banjo yesterday.
June 22, 2009 3:58 PM
Banjo Murder
A 69-year-old man has been beaten to death with a banjo.
Of all the bizarre and violent ways to kill somebody, New Zealand police are alleging Hungarian tourist Ferdinand Amback chose the plunky-stringed comical guitar as his weapon of choice when dispatching Ronald Brown in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga.
On trial this week, Ambach claims he can barely remember the events that led up to police finding Brown badly battered on the floor of his flat with a banjo arm rammed down his throat.
They allege Ambach had met Brown at a bar that day and the two had ventured back to Mr Brown's flat, where an argument broke out over a misunderstanding that Ambach was gay.
Police found Ambach yelling in Hungarian and chucking bits of Brown's furniture out the window.
Brown died in hospital three days later.
The court has so far heard no details of whether the banjo had been played before the argument.
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