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Torture tools laid out for woman
File image. © Andrew Bardwell A man who broke into a woman’s home and placed items of torture on a coffee table while waiting for her to arrive, was sentenced to 10 years’ prison, with a non-parole...
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Three meth accused staying in custody
Three men arrested for alleged involvement in a methamphetamine supply ring have been remanded in custody at the Christchurch District Court. Michael Heron, a 44-year-old concrete worker with no fixed...
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Bashing victim was ‘too nice’ for gang
The victim of a gang bashing had earlier been blocked from membership of Black Power because he was “too nice”. Four Black Power members or associates were jailed for the bashing at the Christchurch...
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Jail for ‘brazen’ taking of car and dog
Ashley Lyle Scarlett drove away with a car while the owner was right beside it and the family dog was in the back. “It is difficult to imagine a more brazen theft of a vehicle,” said Christchurch...
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Marriage scam broker threatened with arrest
A marriage broker convicted of scamming a Wellington man has been threatened with arrest unless she returns from Australia to face sentencing. Li Jun Xue, 59, has paid back all of the $35,000 she was...
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Judge rejects fraudster’s ‘inheritance’ claim
A judge says the explanation from a 35-year-old Manawatu man for raiding $74,262 from the bank account of an 80-year-old rest home resident “lacks reality”. Christchurch District Court Judge John...
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Medicines charge denied
A Christchurch man has pleaded not guilty to a charge arising from a police allegation that he used a pre-hospital emergency care certificate to obtain adrenaline. The man, who has name suppression,...
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Companies’ $415,000 tax bills unpaid
Two directors of the Christchurch firm Russley Engineering Ltd have been given home detention terms after admitting tax offences totalling $415,000. The firm was placed in voluntary liquidation by the...
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Sex abuse victim ‘showing signs of PTSD’
File image. © Andrew Bardwell An 11-year-old girl is showing signs of post traumatic stress disorder after repeated rapes by her father, who was today jailed for more than a decade. The 31-year-old...
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Girl victim of two sex attacks by same intruder
A 14-year-old Christchurch girl was the victim of rape and violation by the same nighttime intruder who entered her home and committed sex attacks two months apart. Preventive detention may be...
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Professional man denies 14 indecency charges
Four more sex charges have been laid against a Christchurch professional man who has now pleaded not guilty to a total of 14 charges. The case was remanded to a pre-trial callover on January 27, with...
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Contractor admits earthwork offences
Kaiapoi business owner Dave Clemence has admitted Resource Management Act charges relating to earthworks on three North Canterbury properties. He and his companies, Clemence Drilling Contractors and DC...
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Jail for large scale party pill offending
File image. © Andrew Bardwell A Riccarton manager accused of being “the driving force” in a party pill production scheme has been jailed for four years. The Crown said the only commonsense conclusion...
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Garden gnome defence goes to appeal
The Court of Appeal is being asked to consider whether another man could be accused of fatally bashing Michelle Lawrence, after Timothy Joseph Foley had struck her twice with a garden gnome. Miss...
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Guilty verdicts from woman’s 10 months of abuse
A jury has accepted a foreign woman’s evidence of enduring 10 months of abuse at the hands of her New Zealand travelling companion. On the 11th day of the trial of a 45-year-old man, the Christchurch...
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Not-so-clever burglar advised to go straight
A judge has told a burglar that he should consider going straight because he’s not very good at burglary. Judge Peter Rollo jailed 25-year-old Gareth Eyre for 19 months for the burglary of the...
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Pit bull in hiding, owner jailed
Karma the dangerous American Pit Bull is in hiding from a death sentence while her owner begins a three-year ten-month jail term for his own towering temper. Karma seized on a woman’s face when she...
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Card used soon after street robbery
A woman who used a bank card stolen only an hour earlier in a gunpoint street robbery, has been sentenced to two months’ home detention in a residential rehabilitation programme. Janita Chloe Pash, 28,...
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Safety standards ‘sometimes almost impossible’ says judge
A judge has spoken of the “sometimes almost impossible standards” imposed on employers in safeguarding employees who sometimes cause their own workplace injuries. Christchurch District Court Judge...
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Renee Duckmanton murder trial date shifted
The trial of a man accused of the murder of sex worker Renee Larissa Duckmanton will be the first trial in the Christchurch High Court’s new premises next year. Sainey Marong denies the charge of...
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