Tiana Huriana Poli

Renato Poli cannot believe the man who slit the throats of his 21-year-old daughter and two young granddaughters is living in the same town as him, but is even more appalled that he has been working door-to-door as a Census collector. "God almighty, I haven't seen him since ... I thought he was in Te Kuiti." In 1993 John Te Huia - then known as Stanley Smith - had delusions that he was going to be killed, his body cut in to parts and put in a freezer. The mental illness made him kill his partner, Angelina Poli, daughter Natalia, 18 months, and stepdaughter Tiana, 4. The family were living in a part of Hamilton known as Poet's Corner. Te Huia was convicted of the triple killing, but on appeal was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. He has since been released from a mental health facility and is being reintegrated into the community, including gaining employment delivering Census forms. Te Huia delivered forms in the Hamilton suburb of Melville - news that came as a shock to an angry and upset Mr Poli. "I still think the bloody Italian way. I've got friends in Melville, and if they recognised him they wouldn't be too happy. If I see him I might just lose my na-na and run him over." Te Huia resigned from his Census-collecting job on Wednesday, after it was found that he had failed to disclose information relating to his job. It is understood that Te Huia spends six days a week at a community house and is no longer on medication. Once a week he visits the hospital board's Henry Bennett Centre. Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/father-stunned-by-triple-killers-retu...