Hayden Miles A friend of slain gay Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles has been today been sentenced to home detention, after admitting a charge laid over her failure to help him as he lay dying. Fairfax reports 18-year-old Nicolette Vaux-Phillips has been given a year's home detention for being an accessory after the fact to culpable homicide. Miles went missing last August, while living at a CYF home, and his body was later found in the Ruru Lawn Cemetery in Linwood. It says people referred in court to her betrayal in not intervening or seeking help for the boy, 15, as he was dying. It heard Hayden saw her as an awesome friend who he wanted to go flatting with. Read more from Fairfax here She previously had name suppression, but that was lifted today. Justice Clifford told the family in court: "No sentence this court can impose can cure the sadness and suffering that Hayden's death has brought about." Gavin John Gosnell, 27, has been charged with Hayden's murder and details of the manner of his death remain suppressed pending his trial, which is set down for later this year.
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First published: Thursday, 24th May 2012 - 5:51pm