A 16-year-old girl was today charged with the murder of a mother-of-three who perished in a Pukekohe house fire last month.
A 18-year-old man was also charged with manslaughter over the same incident.
The new charges were laid when the pair reappeared in Manukau District Court this morning.
They had previously been charged with the arson of the house in Wellington St, Pukekohe in which Lynette Margaret Chapman, 49, died on January 20.
The pair today entered no pleas and the girl was remanded in custody, while the young man was bailed to the home of his grandfather outside Auckland.
Both teenagers will reappear in the same court on March 13.
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