John Logo and Andew Fausia jailed for drug offenses discovered during Adrian Selwyn murder investigation

The discovery of Selwyn’s body at Auckland’s Newmarket Motel last year was initially a mystery. But investigators quickly pieced together a story after reviewing CCTV footage from the motel car park about a week ago.

Selwyn wanted to buy methamphetamine from Logo, who was recorded to have arrived at the motel around 20:00 on March 7, 2023, with his orange Mazda Demio. About 15 minutes later, Selwyn contacted Logo to complain about the poor quality of the medicine. Logo responded by picking up the Fausia brothers before returning to the motel, suggesting a “one-on-one” fight, according to court documents.

When the trio arrived, a message was sent to Selwyn saying “Come out”.

“Mr. Selwyn approached Mr. Logo, keeping a distance of approximately one meter between them,” court documents stated. “Mr. Logo quickly got into a fighting stance and balled his hands into fists. “Mr Selwyn was standing with his hands at his sides and there is no indication in the footage that he was planning to fight Mr Logo.”

However, seconds before the conversation between Logo and Selwyn, the youngest of the Fausia siblings kicked Selwyn in the head.

“Not seeing or anticipating the attack and therefore doing nothing to protect himself, Mr. Selwyn instantly lost consciousness and fell backwards, striking the back of his head on the pavement,” the documents say. “Mr Selwyn and none of the defendants made any attempt to prevent his fall.

“The group immediately approached Mr Selwyn and attempted to wake him up.”

When he didn’t wake up, the group took Selwyn to his room and put him to bed before getting into the same car. After not hearing from him, Selwyn’s family requested a welfare check from hotel staff a week later, at which point his body was found.

It was determined that his death was the result of cerebral hemorrhage caused by blunt force trauma to the head.

Police investigating the death received text messages between Logo and Fausia’s older brother, indicating that the two were working together in the drug trade. They texted about orders the day after Selwyn’s death, before his body was found. Officers determined from their messages that they had supplied at least 5 grams of methamphetamine that month.

Police executed search warrants at homes in Mt Wellington, Ōtāhuhu and Glen Innes the following month.

At Logo’s home, officers found a bag containing 55 grams of meth for sale next to his bed. Another 8 grams were found in Logo along with $5000 in cash.

Police found 132 grams of methamphetamine and 15.7 grams of the substance commonly used by dealers to dilute drugs before sale at Andrew Fausia’s home. They also found three firearms, including two shotguns, hidden next to drugs in the kitchen, as well as ammunition and $19,000 in cash.

An additional 432 grams of meth, along with approximately $17,000 in cash and shotgun ammunition, was found to be found in a red shoebox at the home of younger Fausia sister.

The agreed summary of facts in the case says: “In a description of his actions when interviewed by police, Mr Logo admitted supplying methamphetamine to Mr Selwyn and being at the scene.” “He stated that he sold methamphetamine to support his own drug habit.”

Logo pleaded guilty to five charges at the High Court: two counts of supplying meth to Selwyn and “persons unknown” that month, two counts of possessing meth with intent to supply on the day warrants were executed, and one count of conspiring with Fausia’s younger brother. To wound Selwyn. He was also sentenced to prison on two unrelated meth charges to which he pleaded guilty in district court last week.

Meanwhile, Fausia’s brother also admitted to the charge of “providing materials to unknown persons” and five other charges regarding the contraband found in his home.

Last week’s sentencing noted that 30-year-old Andrew Fausia had 11 previous convictions, most notably for a group attack at Princes Wharf in February 2022 and careless driving while under the influence of drink or drugs causing death.

In 2013, when he was 19, he lost control while driving his friend David Sionepulu’s car and crashed into a fence in Orakai. Sionepulu died at the scene. stabbed him in the torso with a steel rod.

But Judge Ian Gault agreed with defense attorney Jonathon Hudson that the previous offenses were unrelated to the current crime. He declined to increase the sentence but noted that mentioning past convictions served a purpose and that no reduction was possible for previous good behavior.

Andrew Fausia was sentenced to four years and six months in prison; His lawyer argued that he played less of a role in the drug trade than the other defendant.

“I accept that you acted on Mr. Logo’s instructions in the two identified incidents,” Judge Gault said. “However, the items found at your address – methamphetamine in plastic bags, sharps and a significant amount of cash – indicate a degree of operational function and actual or anticipated financial advantage.”

One year was added to his sentence for the gun and ammunition found during a search of his home, and the judge stated that “deterrent sentences are necessary if the firearm crime is associated with drug trafficking activity.”

The defendant requested a reduction due to his remorse, history, and guilty plea. The judge rejected the reduction due to remorse.

“You attempted to downplay your part by stating that you did not know how serious the crime was, that the cause of your crime was your own addiction and the financial difficulties you were facing, and that you were trying to give your family the best life you could,” Judge Gault remarked. “The Crown acknowledges your remorse for Mr Selwyn’s death but notes that you have not been convicted on a charge relating to it.”

Andrew Fausia suggested other mitigating factors could have been his multiple rugby concussions in the past and his anxiety about prison after being stabbed while in custody.

Judge Gault sentenced him to three years and 10 months in prison, allowing a total reduction of 30%.

Meanwhile, Logo’s drug offense resulted in a prison sentence of five years and six months; which was a year longer than the other defendant’s starting point.

The judge stated that when all the charges were combined, he had control of more than 202 grams of methamphetamine. Police had stated in previous drug-related cases that this would equate to approximately 2,000 individual doses, but Judge Gault described Logo’s individual charges as indicative of “small street dealer/retail quantities.”

Another year was added to Logo’s conspiracy to injure.

“I have taken into account the victim impact statements provided by Mr Selwyn’s whānau regarding his (Alex Fausia’s) previous (manslaughter) sentence,” Judge Gault said. “The relevant charge today is conspiracy to injure, although I am aware that the consequence of this was the tragic loss of life of Mr Selwyn.

“I have read the victim impact statements and I know that no matter what sentence I impose today for the crime in question, it will not compensate for the damage the family has suffered.”

An additional 4 months were added because he committed some crimes during his time on bail.

Sentence reductions of up to 40% were taken into consideration after defense attorney Mark Ryan pointed out Logo’s past, his relative youth (he was 24 at the time of the crime), his letter of remorse and his guilty plea.

He developed mild gambling and severe methamphetamine disorders after returning to New Zealand from Australia to support his mother after the death of his father, a report said. But in a conflicting report, he emphasized that he had never used meth and denied that he was under the influence of drugs at the time of the crime; instead, he stated that he only saw drugs as a source of income.

“We sincerely apologize to the victim’s family in your letter,” the judge said. “You acknowledge that you have no excuse for what you did and that you will take full responsibility and ownership for your action. This also contradicts what you told the report writer before the sentence. “You there attempted to blame the victim and denied any intention of harming her.”

Logo’s sentence was four years and two months in prison, four months longer than the other defendants.

Throughout the nearly two-year trial that ended last week, the victim’s family and supporters showed up to every hearing wearing black T-shirts that read “Justice4Ajae.”

Their lives have not been the same since Selwyn’s death, his brother Michael Nancorrow wrote in a statement read aloud by Crown Prosecutor Henry Steele during Alex Fausia’s sentencing in August.

She described the “heartbreaking screams we heard after learning our brother had been killed over something so small” and her ongoing concern for her brother’s children.

“He didn’t even see you coming,” Selwyn’s sister said at the same hearing, adding that her brother “never stood a chance” against the three men. “Ajae’s life ended with a brutal and cowardly act.

“For eight nights and eight days, my brother’s lifeless body lay in his bed, decomposing, becoming more and more unrecognizable… Unfortunately, my brother’s children were never able to see him in his coffin, hug him, kiss him or say goodbye. “For the last time.”

Judge Michele Wilkinson-Smith, who oversaw the previous sentence, agreed that all three men should be ashamed of the way they handled the situation.

“The damage you caused is irreparable,” Alex told Fausia. “You took a life. You didn’t mean to kill, so the charge is manslaughter, but you committed incredibly violent and dangerous behavior and failed to call emergency services when your victim was unconscious and possibly dying. You didn’t even leave him where he fell so he could call emergency services.”

“You and your friends kept him away from any chance of help.”

Captain Craig He is an Auckland-based journalist covering courts and justice. he joined reporter Published in 2021, he has reported on the trials since 2002 in three newsrooms in the United States and New Zealand.

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