Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon
A man has pleaded guilty to murdering a woman in Christchurch.
It can now be revealed the man is Nathan Boulter.
Boulter was jailed for eight years and six months in 2012 for kidnapping and assaulting his ex-girlfriend over a 38 hour ordeal on Great Barrier Island.
Boulter appeared in the High Court at Christchurch on Thursday before Justice Rachel Dunningham and pleaded guilty to murdering a woman on 23 July at a property in Parklands.
A date for sentencing will be set next month at a further hearing.
The name of the victim is currently suppressed.
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