Who Killed Scott Guy? Read Free Page B

programmes for a bit while she dozed. Some time after 7 am, they heard farm bikes and Hunter immediately thought Scott was coming home, jumping off the bed calling out, ‘Bike . . . Dad!’ Kylee at first thought the farm workers must be moving stock along the road but wondered why they’d be doing it at that time of the day, so eventually she got up and looked out her bedroom window. She saw Scott’s ute in the drive and a stock truck parked on the road, but when she noticed the police cars she started to worry, thinking maybe young farm worker Matthew Ireland had been hit by the truck.
    Scooping up Hunter, she grabbed one of Scott’s jackets from the garage and Hunter’s coat from by the front door then went outside, only to be stopped by policeman Neil Martin with his arms raised as he came up the driveway. When he reached Kylee, he told her Scott had been in an accident and the news wasn’t good. Kylee went back inside and dissolved into tears. Seeing how upset she was, Hunter began crying and so they went back to the main bedroom and sat there sobbing. She rang her friend Jo Moss and asked her to come quickly and help look after Hunter, and then called her mother, Diane Bullock, in Hawke’s Bay.
    When her father-in-law, Bryan Guy, arrived he confirmed her worst thoughts—Scott had apparently been murdered. But why? And by who? It all seemed so inconceivable. Scott had been the centre of her life since they met on 8 March 2003. The blue-eyed guy with a dimpled chin who loved sour lollies, country music, playing the guitar, living the cowboy life and life with Kylee surely couldn’t now be dead, less than 100 metres away? ‘From the moment we met we couldn’t be apart,’ Kylee later recalled. ‘We were one in a million. We were best friends. He was an amazing father.’
    Kylee had grown up in the Hawke’s Bay region on the North Island’s east coast, left Havelock North High School early and gone to live in Gisborne for a while before coming back home. She’d had a few boyfriends in the past, one so violent a trespass order had to be taken out against him, but her last relationship had ended about six months before. She was just 18 and completing her early childhood teacher training when she met Scott in a Havelock North pub after the Mohaka Rodeo where he’d been bull riding. Scott and his then girlfriend, Renee, had been drifting apart, and from that night he and Kylee became inseparable.
    At the time, Scott was working at Rissington Breedline, a sheep and beef farm west of Napier, and living on the property. When his parents visited, Scott told them that Kylee was ‘a keeper’. Jo Guy recalled thinking ‘Kylee was beautiful and really nice’ when she first met her, and the fact she liked baking for Scott added to the good impression. But just as their relationship began getting serious, Scott was made redundant after a reorganisation on the farm. So later in 2003 he went back to Feilding and the family farm, helping out with the crops they grew for their stock. It was the type of farming he preferred and, as Kylee put it, ‘He didn’t have any interest in the dairy side of things.’
    Kylee would travel down to see him at weekends, but in November 2003 Scott decided he couldn’t wait any longer and proposed. Three months later Kylee shifted to the Manawatu region, initially living with Scott at his parents’ home, and then shifting into a rented house adjacent to the farm on Aorangi Road. It took a while for her to settle into the district and farm life. Missing her family hugely and hating the weather, she relied on the extended Guy family for support. As Kylee acknowledged, ‘It wasn’t a happy time for me.’
    At one stage Scott mentioned to his mother that there was some pressure on him to shift to Hawke’s Bay, but Jo reminded him that, ‘He who earns the gold, makes the decisions’. So they stayed, although as Jo later noted, Kylee ‘has very strong ideas and Scott would usually bend