David McNee (interior designer)

There he helped decorate Vogel House in Lower Hutt during the time that Sir Robert Muldoon was staying there.

[5] In July 2003 McNee was murdered at his home by 24-year-old Phillip Layton Edwards in St Marys Bay, Auckland.

[7] On the evening of 20 July 2003, Phillip Layton Edwards, a 24-year-old homeless sex worker recently released from prison 11 days prior,[8] was walking along K Road in central Auckland.

Following the attack, Edwards covered McNee’s body with a blanket, robbed the house of money, alcohol, and the convertible, and then fled.

Edwards was later sentenced to an additional three years in 2015 for the kidnapping of a two-year-old boy in Panmure, Auckland which took place in August 2013.