
HE wore a disguise, "premeditated" robbing a service station, did not want to hurt anyone but took a large knife "in case s--- got bad" and stabbed well-known Shortland local Robert "Bobby" Palmer during a fight because the 61-year-old was bigger than him.
And, later, when he was told he was being charged with murder, Zack Mavin replied: "At best it is manslaughter, mate."