Three convicted in robbery, kidnap trial
Three people have been convicted of either kidnapping or robbing a man who booked a sexual encounter online, at the end of a seven-day trial in the High Court at Christchurch. The jury returned nine...
View ArticleMosque video offender’s jail term stands
Philip Neville Arps’ 21-month jail term for his offending with the mosque killings video will stand, after a High Court judge threw out his appeal against the sentence. Justice Rachel Dunningham...
View ArticleDefence attacks credibility of Crown witness
Defence lawyers have mounted a concerted attack on the credibility of a man who says he was kidnapped and robbed after making a commercial sex arrangement online. The jury heard all the closing...
View ArticleJudge’s suspicions about bike shop
A judge says police should investigate Around Again Cycles in Ferry Road because he has suspicions about the shop’s bike-buying activities. He put a bike thief on home detention after the shop bought...
View ArticleMan put on bond after mosque disturbance
A Moslem who was banned from going to the mosques in Christchurch because of his behaviour soon after the attacks on March 15, pleaded guilty to two charges in the Christchurch District Court. William...
View ArticleIntentional damage of 19 cars alleged
A 47-year-old man is in custody on charges of crashing into 19 cars in central Christchurch. James Patrick Malone, a labourer of no fixed abode, was arrested early today after an incident in which a...
View ArticleGang associate was stabbed 14 times
A 51-year-old Nomads gang member has admitted a charge relating to an assault that led to the dying victim – stabbed or cut 14 times – being dropped off at Christchurch Hospital. Richard John Sim...
View ArticleImitation pistol used to stop police chasing
A man who used an imitation pistol to hold off police during a car chase has been allowed home detention. Christchurch District Court Judge Tony Couch decided that 21-year-old Treik Rakena Allen could...
View ArticlePrisoner’s ‘cultural identity’ to be changed
A judge has ordered that prisoner’s “cultural identification” be officially changed from pakeha to Samoan as he begins a four-year jail term. The criminal justice system’s records for James Anthony...
View ArticleCemetery plaque thief jailed for 26 months
Christchurch’s courts rang to the sound of a waiata as a woman who stole brass plaques from a cemetery was told she had committed “an affront to all things sacred and decent”. The waiata was part of a...
View ArticleExtra jail time for Killer Beez member
A heavily tattooed Killer Beez gang member who has admitted a prison yard assault has had eight months added to the jail term he is already serving for a dairy robbery. Adam Moore, 24, was jailed for...
View ArticleMeth dealer blew all her chances
A woman methamphetamine dealer has been jailed after a judge told her she had “blown” all the chances she had been given. That includes absconding from an impressive new rehabilitation centre in rural...
View ArticleRobbery accused agrees to custody remand
A 42-year-old homeless man charged with a central Christchurch robbery on Tuesday has been remanded in custody – which police said was what he wanted. Because of mental health issues, the man was...
View ArticleWoman killed in Linwood high speed crash
Police say a car was being driven at close to 100km an hour in Linwood when it crashed into another car that had gone through a stop sign, with one killed and three injured in the crash that followed....
View ArticleAlleged robbery victim was buying silence, says defence
A defence lawyer alleged a sex industry customer was not being robbed when he handed over money and property, but trying to buy silence. The allegation by Andrew McKenzie was made on the second day of...
View ArticleTear test caught forged money
A Bromley bartender caught a fake $50 note by trying to tear it when a customer handed it over to get change for the pokie machines. Thirty-two-year-old Whiddon Phillip Thomas, who has no known...
View ArticleSex customer kidnapped and robbed, Crown alleges
A man who arranged to meet a sex worker through an online app found himself being kidnapped for four hours and robbed, the Crown alleged as a two-week trial began in the High Court at Christchurch. Six...
View ArticleMurder charge laid over man’s death during chase
Police have laid a murder charge against Liam Teau Ariki Strickland over the death of a pedestrian during a police pursuit incident in New Brighton on August 7. Strickland, 21, appeared in the...
View ArticleDriver threatened after admitting fatal crash
A group at court threatened a truck driver who admitted running a red light in a crash that killed two and injured three family members in Yaldhurst Road in April. One of the red-clad group could be...
View ArticleMosque video offender allegedly sent ‘violent’ letters from prison
Mosque video offender Philip Neville Arps has allegedly sent out letters from prison expressing violent views, the Crown has claimed. Crown prosecutor Shivani Dayal acknowledged that the Crown did not...
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