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Hunter fined for accidental shot
A man who accidentally fired a rifle through his own car door and into another car parked nearby has been fined in the Christchurch District Court. Michael John Graham, a 50-year-old Kaiapoi...
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False invoice scheme netted $86,000
A Christchurch man was regarded as a loyal employee for seven years while he stole $86,000 from the company with false invoices. Bruce John Levey, now aged 64, was told by Judge Stephen O’Driscoll at...
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Pistol held to head during dairy robbery
A Killer Beez gang member who held a pistol to the head of a dairy owner he was robbing has been jailed for four years seven months. Christchurch District Court Judge Tom Gilbert asked Adam Moore if he...
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Mobster threatened to cut off woman’s fingers
A Mongrel Mobster asked a woman, “Do you want to lose your fingers?” when she refused to hand over her phone during a debt collection visit. The woman thought she saw that 41-year-old Ricky John...
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17-year non-parole term for father-figure who ‘snapped’
Troy Kevin Taylor, who “snapped from frustration” and caused fatal injuries to a toddler, has been jailed for life with a non-parole term of 17 years. Justice Cameron Mander said at Taylor’s sentencing...
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Determined support from mum for son’s bail
Mum came to court to support her son’s application for release on bail…in spite of her recent death. The man, in his 30s, had been languishing in custody on an assault charge. Defence counsel Paul...
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Pub armed robberies, shootings admitted
A 23-year-old has admitted the armed robbery of six hotels in Christchurch and South Canterbury, and shooting two women in a home invasion. Douglas Anderson Roake, who had name suppression until his...
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Fishing voyage lost $173,000 because of lies
A couple face a $173,000 reparation claim after lying about a family death and serious injury to make a fishing trawler return to port. At the Christchurch District Court today, they admitted lying to...
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Child sex abuse victim will be ‘haunted forever’
A woman says she will be “haunted forever” after learning that there was a second victim of Sidney John Hurst’s child sexual abuse. A jury accepted that the woman was raped by Hurst in the 1950s when...
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Remand to Dunedin for robbery accused
An additional carjacking charge has been laid against Dunedin man Michael John Hughes after police arrested him in Canterbury on Wednesday at the end of a manhunt. Hughes, 36, who has a large tattoo of...
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Corrections officers bashed in riot
File image. © Andrew Bardwell An inmate has admitted bashing prison officers in a riot at the Christchurch Men’s Prison in November. Rawiri Graham Richardson, 26, was with a group of prisoners who...
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$9000 reparations ordered for pile-up
The victim of a terrible pile-up involving a street-sweeping truck near Rangiora will not get all the reparation she was asking for after her vehicle was written off, a court has decided. The truck...
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Gas torch used as weapon, police allege
Two charges of using a gas torch to assault a woman have been laid against a 44-year-old man who was allegedly on the run from police for seven months. The assault with a weapon charges were among...
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Bail not opposed for burglary accused
A woman charged with two house burglaries has been granted bail at the Christchurch District Court three days after a warrant was issued for her arrest. The 43-year-old woman, Amanda Cherie Cook, of...
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Fatal crash teen must present road safety message
A 15-year-old will have to make presentations to schools and youth groups about the late night crash near Leeston that killed three of his friends on Boxing Day. He will stay on bail while he makes the...
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Courtroom sprinter doesn’t get far
A woman sprinted from the dock as she was being jailed in the Christchurch District Court and briefly made it outside the Court House before recaptured by a Court Security Officer. Nikita Chela...
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Illegal duck cull followed big vet bills
Three Leeston men must pay $2250 to North Canterbury Fish and Game for an unauthorised cull of Paradise Shelduck that were causing big bills for a farm at Irwell. The Christchurch District Court was...
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Marriage ‘victim’ asks for leniency for scammer
An older Wellington man has asked for leniency for the Sydney woman who scammed him out of $35,000 by offering her “sister” in a marriage contract when she was already married. He got his wish today,...
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Custody remand for ram-raid accused
A 17-year-old is being held in custody after his arrest for a Waikuku ram-raid that became a snack attack. Police say five young offenders were involved, and four of them appeared and were remanded in...
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Alleged burglar-caught-on-film denies charge
A man allegedly filmed by the householder after burgling an Avonhead property has pleaded not guilty and chosen to have a jury trial. Brendon James Smith, 44, of Aranui, entered the not guilty plea and...
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