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Gang president jailed for a decade
Former Rebels gang president Albert Enoka has been jailed for 10 years for a violent stand-over and kidnapping incident, but the judge ruled out an open-ended term of preventive detention. Enoka was...
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Teen jailed for two police chases
A teenager was jailed for two years three months after admitting being the driver of two unlawfully taken cars which were involved in police chases in June. In the Christchurch District Court, Ethan...
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Name suppression lifts on murder accused
Name suppression has lifted on the 18-year-old woman charged with the murder of Alicia Nathan, at a house in Avonhead three weeks ago. The order was not continued when Katrina Roma Epiha appeared at a...
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The problem of Christopher James Taylor
The system tries hard, but it struggles to deal with the problem of Christopher James Taylor. And there are casualties along the way. People don’t get thanked for the help they provide. Taylor has been...
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Red zone car chase admitted
A man has admitted leading police on a car chase that involved speeding across empty red zone sections and crashing through fences. Andrew Shaw, a 32-year-old who now works for a contracting firm,...
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Community work sentence for poaching deer
A community work sentence has been imposed on a Waikari man who has admitted his second poaching offence, after a deer was shot on Waiau’s Windford Hills Station. George Stuart Aitken, a 27-year-old...
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Sex offender’s ‘mindset’ brings jail term
File image. © Andrew Bardwell A man’s continuing denials of sex offending by touching two girls has led to a 20-month jail term. Christchurch District Court Judge Alistair Garland said a home detention...
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Potential half-million dollar drug interception
A 30-year-old man has admitted importation of a substance which could produce half a million dollars worth of synthetic cannabis. Steven Reece Galbraith was charged with importing a psychoactive...
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February date set for Sumner murder trial
Three people charged with murdering a man found injured in a Sumner carpark will go on trial in the High Court at Christchurch on February 19. The date was set at a pre-trial call-over before Justice...
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Powerful handgun found along with drugs
Police found methamphetamine, a powerful handgun with ammunition, and $8000 cash when they searched a property in Aranui five weeks ago. They now want to destroy the drugs, firearm and ammunition, and...
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Trio with alleged gang links remanded
Two men and a woman with alleged connections to the King Cobra gang have been charged with firearm offences after a police armed offenders squad raid on a house in New Brighton last week. Liam Kimi...
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Trainer was ‘grossly irresponsible’, says judge
Fernside horse trainer Phillip Benjamin Burrows’ actions that led to a boy being run over at a training track were described as “grossly irresponsible” by Christchurch District Court Judge Gary...
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Woman admits meth-for-supply offence
A 23-year-old Aranui woman has admitted possession of the class A drug methamphetamine for supply, and has been remanded for sentencing with her partner in October. Possession of methamphetamine for...
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Apology letters for victims of HIV offender
A man who put three men at risk by having unprotected sex while he knew he was HIV-positive has written letters of apology to all the victims. The letters from Johnny Lachlan Benjamin Lumsden, 27, will...
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Feelings running high for murder appearances
Feelings were running high for court appearances by two men charged with the murder of 24-year-old Bradley Lomax, whose body was found on the Waimakariri riverbed a week ago. Extra police were on duty...
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Non-payment of $250,000 tax admitted
Rangiora businessman John Robert Stevens has admitted aiding and betting the non-payment of nearly $250,000 to Inland Revenue, a year after the liquidation of the Shalimar Knitwear company he owned....
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Broken bones in bus stop bashing
A 30-year-old man admitted causing broken bones by punching his victim repeatedly while he lay on the ground at a bus stop on Pages Road, Christchurch. On November 29, James Ian Norman Bisset, with two...
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Offender caught on security cam admits burglary
A woman caught on a household security camera “scoping” a property ahead of two burglaries has admitted nine offences at the Christchurch District Court. Amanda Cherie Cook, 44 and unemployed, admitted...
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Three charged with organised burglary offending
Three people charged with being part of an organised criminal group which may have carried out 80 burglaries have been remanded at the Christchurch Court House. Robert William Northe, a 30-year-old...
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Gold mining company fined for excavation
The Chinese director of a gold mining company cannot claim a lack of understanding as a factor that led to unauthorised excavation of a West Coast stream bed, an Environment Court judge has ruled....
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