{"id":16757,"date":"2026-02-25T06:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16757"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:40:48","slug":"if-im-guilty-im-guilty-what-a-father-who-admitted-killing-his-son-told-a-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16757","title":{"rendered":"‘If I’m guilty, I’m guilty’: What a father who admitted killing his son told a journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly two years before Mukzameel Ali pleaded guilty to killing his son, he spoke to RNZ national crime correspondent Sam Sherwood on several occasions, with his explanation about what happened.<\/b><\/p>\n

“If I’m guilty, I’m guilty\u2026”<\/p>\n

It was 12 June 2024, four days after Mukzameel Ali’s nine and a half month old son had died from what police had called non-accidental blunt-force trauma.<\/p>\n

Then working at Stuff, I had spoken to Ali on two occasions since his son’s death. He had strongly denied being responsible.<\/p>\n

In my first conversation he told me: “I didn’t do anything wrong, because I was trying to save my son. He was my son, I loved him so much. I was trying my best.”<\/p>\n

It was during my third call that he told me his efforts to give his son CPR may have caused injuries that led to his death, but said it “wasn’t intentional”.<\/p>\n

He said he was “worried” about what might happen to him and was “angry” about what he did.<\/p>\n

“Because I didn’t do that on purpose, but if that would’ve resulted in that then – I feel very bad.”<\/p>\n

Two days later Ali was charged with murdering his son, and on Monday he\u00a0pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was revealed the little boy died as a result of blunt force trauma resulting in a crushing injury to the abdomen.<\/p>\n

Possible causes included a punch, kick or stomp and the nature of the injury was such that he would’ve been crying and in obvious discomfort until ultimately losing consciousness. He would not have survived longer than 30 to 60 minutes after the blow.<\/p>\n

With his guilty plea, I look back at my interviews with Ali, his explanations and what actually happened that day.<\/p>\n

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Nearly two years before Mukzameel Ali pleaded guilty to killing his son, he spoke to RNZ national crime correspondent Sam Sherwood on several occasions, with his explanation about what happened. “If I’m guilty, I’m guilty\u2026” It was 12 June 2024, four days after Mukzameel Ali’s nine and a half month old son had died from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16759,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757\/revisions\/16759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}