Building company involved in fatal accident named
West Coast building company Adam Campbell Building Ltd has abandoned its bid to keep its name suppressed after a staff member was killed at a worksite two years ago. The High Court at Greymouth has...
View ArticleCharges mount in mail theft investigation
Charges continue to mount against a woman already at court over a stolen mail investigation. Six new charges were laid when Anna Leigh Hunter, a 36-year-old who now lives in Christchurch, made a remand...
View ArticleJudge refuses man permission to visit mosque
A judge has refused a man’s request to be able to pray at the Deans Avenue mosque after he was arrested twice for disorderly behaviour. Police agreed that William Kapea could be released on bail, but...
View ArticleTrial hears defence account of baby’s injuries
A 32-year-old has given his account of how a one-month-old baby came to receive broken bones and brain injury while in his care, in a judge-alone trial in the High Court at Christchurch. Hayden Anthony...
View ArticleUber driver ‘shocked’ by sex request
An Uber driver told police he was “shocked” when a woman passenger asked him for sex on a journey to her home from a city bar. The DVD recording of the police interview with Moses Gengo-Yon Ravanes was...
View ArticleWoman admits Avonhead stabbing murder
A 20-year-old woman has admitted the stabbing murder of Alicia Maree Nathan in an attack that began with an argument over music during a party at an Avonhead house. Katrina Roma Epiha was due to begin...
View ArticleMerivale murderer ‘unlikely to ever be released’
Life imprisonment with a 28-year non-parole term was handed down to Paul Pounamu Tainui in the High Court at Christchurch today, for his second murder in 24 years. Justice Cameron Mander told the...
View ArticleThree remands over mosque shooting video
Three more men have been remanded on charges of possessing or distributing the live-streamed video of the murders at the Deans Avenue mosque. One man also faced a charge of inciting violence by...
View ArticleUber driver found guilty of rape
Uber driver Moses Gengo-Yon Ravanes is in custody facing sentencing for rape after a jury found him guilty on the fourth day of his trial in the Christchurch District Court. Judge Paul Kellar remanded...
View ArticleDischarges for agents over crayfishing breach
Two real estate agents caught taking crayfish in the Pohatu Marine Reserve at Akaroa have been granted discharges without conviction after working to help protect the reserve. Judge Lawry Hinton...
View ArticleCustody remands after police raid, arrests
A man whose Spencerville property was the target of a police search on Thursday was remanded in custody on two charges, at a special court sitting in the Christchurch District Court today. The...
View ArticleMosque shooting accused faces 89 charges
Alleged mosque shooter Brenton Harrison Tarrant faced 50 murder charges and 39 attempted murder charges when he made his first appearance in the High Court at Christchurch, after the events of March...
View ArticleTeenager denies mosque video charge
An 18-year-old’s custody remand over charges alleging re-posting live-streaming of the mosque shootings and material “inciting extreme violence” may be reconsidered on Monday. The man, who has been in...
View ArticleAlleged robbers appear in court
Two of the three men charged with armed robberies, and burglaries through Christchurch in March and April were remanded in custody when they appeared in the Christchurch District Court today....
View ArticleTerror attack teen ‘will never go back to extremism’
A Christchurch teenager who once plotted a radical Islamist terror attack says he will never go back to extremist thinking after the attack that killed 50 people at the Al Noor Mosque. He told a...
View ArticleTeen denies distribution charge over mosque attack
A 16-year-old youth denies a charge of distributing objectionable material from the March 15 Christchurch terror attack and has been remanded in custody for a Youth Court case review. The teenager...
View ArticleBail granted on armed burglary charge
Bail has been granted to a 20-year-old facing an armed burglary charge over a Phillipstown incident that may have led to a co-offender being admitted to hospital. Fairmont Joseph Wiringi was granted...
View ArticleFraudster left ‘trail of destruction’
A woman who left a “trail of destruction” when she siphoned $358,925 from the bank accounts of a Christchurch travel agency where she worked, has been jailed for 27 months. Jordan Alexandra Kirkham,...
View ArticleThird robbery accused remanded
An 18-year-old jointly charged with two others for armed robberies across Christchurch during March and April, has been remanded in custody to Friday. Lucas Lynch, who has no address according to the...
View ArticleCommunity-based sentence for strangulation case
One of Christchurch’s first prosecutions under the tougher new strangulation law has drawn a sentence of community detention and supervision. Strangulation – a stand-alone offence since early December...
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