A couple who killed a man after luring him to a beach with promises of sex have been released on parole but must not see each other.

In December 2012 Gisborne woman Crystal Black and her partner at the time, Krystel Pokai beat Amandeep Singh to death on Kaiti beach.

They pleaded guilty to manslaughter, car conversion, theft of Singh's credit card, using a document to obtain an advantage, and attempting to pervert the course of justice, and in December, 2013, they were both jailed for eight years and eight months.

Amandeep Singh, 22, was killed by Krystel Pokai and Crystal Black.

Black was granted parole and released from prison in July last year after the Parole Board found she did not pose an undue risk to the safety of the community. She was granted parole with several special conditions, including that she did not communicate or associate with Pokai and must "avoid maintaining any casual or accidental encounters" with her, unless she has the written consent of her probation officer..

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A Parole Board progress report in February said Black had progressed well, had worked towards re-establishing herself in the lives of her two children, and she understood the importance of not having any further association or contact with Pokai

Black's sentence ends on November 3, 2021.

Pokai was granted parole and released on February 13 this year, with similar special conditions. Her sentence ends on December 7, 2020.

Before granting Pokai parole the Board noted she had been working as a shepherd under a release to work programme, and that she had good reports from her employer and from the prison.

Both women are now 29-years-old.

Singh was reported missing on New Year's Day, 2013. His badly decomposed body was found in bushes on Kaiti beach three weeks later.

Singh, who was married, was living and working in Gisborne at the time of his killing.

Pokai and Black used text messages to entice Singh to their house on December 29, 2012, then made him drive them to Kaiti beach in his car.

When they arrived, the two women beat him to death and dragged his body under some bushes.

The women then drove to Kaiti mall, where they tried to use his eftpos card to withdraw money from a cash machine.

Later they drove to a relative's home and asked her to clean their fingerprints from Singh's car.

They used disinfectant and removed items from the car, including a black cardigan that had blood on it.

The items were later burned.

They left Singh's car on an empty section, and returned home early on December 30.

Later that day, Black told her former partner, the father of her two children, that she and Pokai had "just killed a fella".

Some time later, Black's relative and her former partner went to police and told them what Black had said.

The women gave police several different versions of what occurred, initially denying meeting Singh.

They later claimed he had gone "psycho" at the beach, and that it was Black's relative who killed him.