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In a rare case of "transferred malice", a man has been sentenced to life in prison for murder, even though he didn't intend to kill his victim.
Waaka Davis had intended to kill someone, but it just wasn't meant to be 23-year-old Aaliyah Wilson, whom he shot in the head with a shotgun in July last year.
Instead, his intended victim was another man whom he'd quarrelled with in the weeks leading up to the incident and attempted to bait him into a fight to the death.
Ordinarily, a murder conviction requires a deliberate intent to kill someone, as opposed to manslaughter, where someone dies but the perpetrator didn't intend to end their life.
However, in Davis' case, the Crown relied on the legal precedent of "transferred malice"
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