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MySpace shuts down prisoner's page
By The Dominion Post
Published: 08/04/2008

NEW ZEALAND - Convicted murderer Antonie Dixon's graphic webpage has been shut down as the Corrections Department investigates how prison photos of the tattooed killer were sent out. Corrections reassured the public yesterday that Dixon did not have a cellphone after pictures emerged on a social networking site, MySpace, showing him posing in jail with other criminals.

It follows revelations that a gang member was charged after a late-night visit to a murder-trial juror - a move that threatened to derail the court case that ended in a guilty verdict on Friday. An Auckland High Court jury found Dixon guilty of attacking Simonne Butler and Renee Gunbie with a samurai sword in Pipiroa near Thames on January 22, 2003, and murdering James Te Aute in Auckland the same night. It was his second conviction on the charges.Read more.

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