The liquidation of a company linked to New Zealand’s only forestry-related manslaughter prosecution has stalled due to a lack of funds and non-cooperation by the company’s director, liquidators say.
Paul Burr Contracting Ltd has been in liquidation since August 2015, after its sole shareholder, Paul Burr, called in liquidators.
The liquidation started five days before Burr stood trial in the High Court in Palmerston North for the manslaughter of Lincoln Kidd, who died in December 2013 after a tree felled by Burr on a block between Levin and Foxton landed on Kidd.
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