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Sex offender followed or watched children
A sex offender sent back from Australia has now been jailed for indecencies against children he encountered in public places. Forty-three-year-old Gustafoham Harris was sentenced to three years’...
View ArticleBrawl in court at shooting-related appearance
A huge brawl erupted in Christchurch’s main court as men rushed the dock where a 35-year-old had admitted charges relating to the fatal shooting of a King Cobra gang member at Charing Cross. Chairs...
View ArticleSuppression for three on sex charges
Three men charged with stupefying or sex charges against a woman in April last year have been granted name suppression and remanded on bail at the Christchurch District Court. The three were remanded...
View ArticleWomen admit violent robbery of elderly couple
A cushion was held over the face of an 83-year-old man to stop him screaming during a robbery in his Papanui home, and he was threatened with his own garden secateurs. “I’m going to stab you, you...
View ArticleManslaughter charge after fatal crash
A tearful teenager has been charged with manslaughter over the death of 18-year-old Alexia Chrissy-Marie Noble-Hazelwood in central Christchurch on Friday night. The 19-year-old scaffolder from Hornby,...
View ArticleTeacher denies meth charges
A Christchurch teacher is denying methamphetamine charges and has elected trial by jury. The man, in his 50s, was granted continued name suppression by Judge Gary MacAskill in the Christchurch District...
View ArticleWoman charged with theft of tour group’s luggage
A woman charged with stealing a trailer containing the luggage of a Chinese tour group has been granted a registrar’s remand at the Christchurch District Court. Cristal Rose Devereux, 24, of Cashmere,...
View ArticleSeven-year four-month term for robbery of elderly couple
The elderly victims of a pair of violent home invaders want to leave their heritage house in Papanui because they do not feel safe, but have found they will have to stay. The 83-year-old man who was...
View ArticleGangs can keep their patches, judge rules
Police will have to keep their hands off gang members’ “colours” as they go about their business – legal or otherwise – after a judge’s ruling in the Christchurch District Court. The Crown and police...
View ArticleSuppression continues for teenage murder accused
Name suppression continues for a 17-year-old girl facing a murder charge in the High Court at Christchurch while reports are prepared ahead of a trial tentatively set for September. Justice Rachel...
View ArticleMan jailed for ‘evil’ attack
A former partner described the “evil, smirking look” on Paul Dumelow’s face as he told her: “Your children will never see you alive again.” She told the 51-year-old’s Christchurch District Court...
View ArticleDecade in jail for shooting woman
For firing a close-range shotgun blast into his ex-partner’s leg while two children were nearby, a Loburn man has been jailed for 10 years. Thirty-five-year-old Luke Adam Nickless claimed the shot was...
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Setbacks for ‘attack’ youth, and a barbecue invitation
Emotions have been getting too much for a youth who admitted plotting an ISIS-style terrorist attack, and he has been involved in a series of incidents at his supported accommodation in Christchurch....
View ArticleSynthetics-for-supply charge admitted
A 21-year-old woman has admitted possession for supply of synthetic drugs – but the charge does not allege the substance was responsible for a spate of hospital admissions and deaths. Lani Hawkins, of...
View ArticleSex offender still has ‘Dr’ title
A judge continued to refer to Rakesh Kumar Chawdhry as “Dr Chawdhry” at his latest sentencing because even after 13 indecency convictions he has still not been struck off. Christchurch District Court...
View ArticleCompany admits stream contamination that killed eels
A North Island-based company has admitted discharging contaminants which the Canterbury Regional Council said killed 2000 eels and fish in Belfast in April. Polarcold Stores Ltd, which is listed at an...
View ArticleShotgun threat caused WINZ lockdown
A man whose shotgun threat caused a lockdown at the WINZ Sydenham branch has been jailed for two months. As soon as Bevan Peter Brown, 40, is released before Christmas, he will go to Work and Income...
View ArticleMarong’s murder appeal dismissed
The Court of Appeal has rejected Sainey Marong’s claim that he was insane when he murdered Renee Duckmanton in May 2016. Marong, a Gambian-born butcher who lived in Ilam at the time, is serving a life...
View ArticleMan jailed for claw hammer robbery
A 27-year-old says he robbed a Bryndwr service station because he owed a drug debt to a gang. Paul Graham Alan Rogers was jailed for two years five months for the August 24 robbery of the Challenge...
View ArticleFather-of-five sentenced for ‘rough justice’
After a young man he knew took his car, sold it, and cleaned out his child’s savings for drugs purchases, Tumahana John Ponga administered some rough justice. Forty-five-year-old father-of-five Ponga...
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