Former Tauranga hotelier Gregory Meads is sentenced to 14 years jail for the murder of his wife Helen, at Matamata in 2009.
He appeared for sentence in the High Court at Hamilton today, after earlier being found guilty of murder in a trial in October last year.

The hotel convicted murderer Gregory Meads once owned.

Meads is also ordered to pay $65,000 to his wife's family. The sentence has a minimum non parole period of 11 years.
The Meads, who had been together since 1994, used to operate Tauranga's Willow Park Hotel – now The Armitage, before moving to Matamata to take up horse breeding at the Willow Park Stud.
Meads was convicted of shooting his wife in the stables on Banks Road Matamata at close range with a shotgun on September 23, 2009.
Helen Meads was killed four days after she told Meads she intended to leave him, according to evidence given at the trial.
While she slept in a spare room on September 22 and 23, Meads trolled through her phone's text record.

Meads shot his wife after returning from taking the children to school.