HIGH SPIRITS AFTER DOIG MURDER

Ese Junior Falealii yesterday told a jury that his alleged accomplices
celebrated when he told them he had killed pizza worker Marcus Doig.

Falealii also gave chilling details of how he murdered Mangere Bridge
ASB Bank teller John Vaughan a week later.

He said that before both robberies and some others he was involved in
he had smoked pure methamphetamine, or P.

The 19-year-old, who is serving a life sentence, is giving evidence
for the Crown against Joseph Sam Samoa, William Logan Johansson and
Pago Savaiinaea, who the Crown claims were parties to one or both murders.

Falealii told the court that Samoa and Johansson were involved in the
Pakuranga Pizza Delivery Company robbery on May 8 last year when Mr
Doig was shot in the head.

Before the robbery the three of them were sitting in a car smoking
pure methamphetamine "non-stop".

Falealii said that the men had told him they had tried to rob the
pizza parlour before but the manager shut the till.

Falealii told Crown prosecutor Christine Gordon that he was told "if
he does that again to blow him away, you know, shoot him".

He said he told the accused he wanted out but they said, "No, no, no,
have another smoke and you'll be all right".

Falealii told the court that he went into the pizza parlour and
pointed a cut-down rifle at the owner, John Bell, and told him to put
all the money in the bag.

He said that Mr Doig came running out from a back room.

He pointed the gun at him and told him to lie on the
ground.

"When he was doing that John Bell turned around and looked at me and
shut the till. The same time he shut the till I pulled the trigger ...
" Falealii said that instead of running off, Mr Bell circled around
behind him and "I kind of followed him".

"My finger was still on the trigger and the gun was just making that
noise, click, click, click, and it was empty."

Evidence has been given that Falealii fired two shots in Mr Bell's
direction.

Falealii said that when he got back into the car he told the others
that he had shot someone. Johansson allegedly said: "Good job, the
deserved it."

Falealii said: "They weren't saying, 'Oh damn, why did you shoot him?
. You should have shot him in the leg or somewhere like that'."

At the time, he said, the others did not know that it was Mr Doig who
had been shot and not Mr Bell.

"They were celebrating like someone had a birthday or something ...
They were jumping up and down, like they were just bouncing up and
down on their seats, saying, 'Good job'."

Falealii said he did not know how many shots he had
fired.

He told the court that some days later he was involved in the ASB
robbery with Samoa, Johansson and his cousin Savaiinaea.

Samoa and Johansson allegedly told him: "The gun's loaded and there's
eight shells in there. You've got nothing to lose. Just shoot them
all if you have to."

He said that when Johansson dropped him off, he told him: "You're
holding the gun, the gun's the power. Anyone with you, shoot them."
After plucking up the courage, Falealii said, he went into the bank
with the gun, the same weapon he used in all the robberies in which he
took part, and got staff to open the door to the secure teller area.

At gunpoint, Mr Vaughan and a female teller emptied their tills into
Falealii's bag.

Falealii said the female teller and another woman then went to some
other drawers and started "chucking in" $100 and $50 notes.

"I told John Vaughan to do the same thing and he said he didn't know
what I was talking about. "I said, 'Put the money, open the * drawer
and put the * money in or I'll shoot you'.

"And he said, 'I don't know what you're talking about'.

"He put his hands up, like in a surrender position, and I kept telling
him, ' put the money in the bag or I'll shoot you'.

"The girls were putting money in the bag and that's when I shot
him."

He said that later, as he and the accused divided the money, he told
them what happened to Mr Vaughan in the bank.

He said that either Samoa or Johansson had said: " hell, what a
dick."

At that stage, Johansson said that Falealii had now repaid the $200
debt he owed Samoa after being robbed while selling P for Samoa.

Cross-examined by Johansson's lawyer, Chris Comeskey, about the pizza
parlour robbery, Falealii agreed that what he had done was
cold-blooded murder.

Mr Comeskey told Falealii that he was the gunman and that he had
watched an innocent young man's life end.

Falealii said that things went wrong but Mr Comeskey rebutted that
suggestion, saying that Falealii had killed Mr Doig
intentionally.

Falealii said he panicked but Mr Comeskey said that did not stop him
firing in Mr Bell's direction as he scurried under the tables for safety.

Earlier, Falealii told the jury of a other robberies, including one at
the Lucki Bar and Casino in Otahuhu during which he aimed at a patron
who got in his way and pulled the trigger.

The weapon had no bullets but he thought it was loaded.

Falealii was involved in eight of a spate of 12 robberies, culminating
in the two murders.

Facing charges are Samoa, 28, of Mangere and Johansson, 27, of Otara,
who are accused of being involved in the murder of Mr Doig and the
attempted murder of Mr Bell.

They are also accused with Savaiinaea, 27, of Otara of the murder of
Mr Vaughan.

Samoa faces five charges of aggravated robbery. (He pleaded guilty to
four others at the start of the case and another one during the trial,
including the robbery of the pizza parlour.)

Johansson faces 12 aggravated robbery charges, Savaiinaea
three.

A fourth man, Kenneth Edward Kitiseni, 33, of Manurewa also faces
three aggravated robbery counts.

Killer drug

Double killer Ese Junior Falealii told a jury yesterday of the effects
that pure methamphetamine (P) had on him. Falealii smoked the drug
before a number of the eight robberies he was involved in.

They included the Pakuranga Pizza Delivery Company, where he shot
part-time pizza worker Marcus Doig in the head, and the Mangere Bridge
ASB, where teller John Vaughan met the same fate.

Falealii told Crown prosecutor Christine Gordon that the drug did not
cause hallucinations or voices in his head.

"It's not like smoking pot or heroin or coke. It's a totally different
drug. It doesn't give you a buzz. Sometimes you don't even know you
are buzzing.

"It kind of takes a bit of fear away, boosts your adrenalin and makes
you hyped up, and keeps you up for ages and makes you do things you
don't normally do when you are straight."

Falealii said he first took P before his second robbery, at the
Forhomes Furniture store in Papatoetoe on May 3 last year, where shots
were fired. He said he, Joseph Samoa and William Johansson also smoked
the drug after some of the robberies, but Pago Savaiinaea did not use
P.