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Bus shelters get a friend at court
A Christchurch judge has taken a stand for bus shelters everywhere. Judge Stephen O’Driscoll has remanded a 23-year-old tagger for sentencing in April and warned that a serious penalty could be...
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Hungry, abused children were left to forage
A man’s parenting was so appalling that children in his care were left to forage and steal to get food. “That is a sign of their desperation,” said Christchurch District Court Judge Raoul Neave as he...
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Bail granted for armed robbery accused
Police have approved release on bail under strict conditions for a Bromley man who been charged with armed robbery incidents at two Christchurch dairies this month. They did not oppose bail when Joshua...
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Second arrest for dairy robberies
An 18-year-old is the second person charged with the armed robbery of two dairies in Christchurch during January. Iosefa Filifili appeared in the Christchurch District Court this week – the day after...
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Black market seafood charges admitted
The owner of the Oriental Warehouse in Cashel Street has been fined $12,500 for buying black market crayfish and failing to record where she had bought paua and crayfish. Poh Cheng Sim, 59, admitted...
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New Brighton kite day
Kite Day at New Brighton beach. No crime in sight anywhere. A photo of the kite day festivities at New Brighton beach today, just as some light relief for our regular Christchurch Court News followers...
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Firearms, meth lab charges denied
A man arrested at the scene of an alleged clandestine drugs laboratory in Linwood in December has pleaded not guilty and elected jury trial on all charges in the Christchurch District Court today. Gary...
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Trial hears different accounts of bashing
A 23-year-old man remembers pushing and wrestling but has no memory of the bashing that put him in hospital and now the defence in a Christchurch District Court trial says the case is a whodunit. The...
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Crown reopens West Coast fraud investigation
“The whole thing is fishy,” said Crown prosecutor Karyn South as she announced new inquiries into the dealings of a West Coast accountant now in custody for fraud and forgery. She also told the...
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Fake warrant issue ‘industry wide’, says offender
A Christchurch mechanic who has admitted issuing fake warrants of fitness claims it is an “industry-wide” issue. Twenty-eight-year-old Jeremy Burrell told police he “felt pressured to act in this way”...
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Road-rage charges denied
A Hornby man is denying three charges relating to an alleged road-rage incident in Riccarton Road last month. Sione Toutaiolepo, 46, entered the not guilty pleas before a registrar at the Christchurch...
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Bail refused for gun shop theft accused
Bail has been refused for a Leeston man arrested at the weekend for a series of shoplifting charges, including stealing an $18,000 night vision unit from Gun City in Papanui. James Edward George Jones,...
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Chinese tourist admits causing head-on smash
A Chinese tourist will have to pay $7000 for causing a head-on crash near Glenorchy. Yi Zhu, 45, from Shanghai, had been horse riding in the Paradise Lake area before the crash on a narrow gravel road...
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The Wizard of Oz at Riccarton House
The Wizard of Oz production, sponsored by Anthony Harper, by The Forge, at Riccarton House. Some light relief from the regular heavy diet of crime and mayhem for Christchurch Court News readers. No...
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Man admits Facebook threats
An ex-employee who sent threatening images as personal messages to a woman’s Facebook account has admitted an unusual Harmful Digital Communications Act charge. The man was released last week from...
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Apology may follow WINZ firearm threats
Mitchell Shane Moulton wants to meet and apologise to the Work and Income staff he upset with his armed threats outside the department’s Linwood office last year. The 33-year-old Aranui man, remains in...
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Jail for date-rape of sleeping woman
File image. © Andrew Bardwell A 27-year-old man starting a three-year six-month jail term for rape has described his victim as “a lovely person” and said he hopes she can eventually forgive him....
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Prison assault charge
A prisoner has been charged with a serious broomstick assault on another inmate at the Christchurch Men’s Prison three weeks ago. Jamie Bryce Brown, a 23-year-old labourer, appeared by video-link from...
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Remand on WINZ threat charge
A man charged with threatening a Work and Income staff member in an incident last Friday has been granted a registrar’s remand at the Christchurch District Court. The remand without plea, by a...
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New robbery charges laid
New robbery charges have been laid against two men previously charged with a street robbery. The charges were laid as three men charged with the aggravated robbery of three teenage boys of their...
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