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Gang threat led to screwdriver robbery
A 23-year-old says he committed a hopeless service station robbery because a gang was threatening to burn down his parents’ home because of a drug debt. Nathan Paul French wore no disguise, armed...
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Apologies continue from burglar-on-camera
A burglar-caught-on-camera has continued delivering his apologies as he admitted the offending, at a Christchurch District Court appearance. Judge Jane Farish described Brendon James Smith’s guilty...
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Bashing murder trial date set
September 25 has been set for the start of a two-week murder trial for Peter John Carroll, accused of bashing Marcus Luke Tucker to death. Carroll, a 52-year-old Bishopdale man, is accused of bashing...
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Manslaughter victim’s family praised for ‘dignity’ at sentencing
The family of manslaughter victim Corey James Protos was praised for their “dignity and restraint” as they faced the sentencing of the woman who strangled him to death in a domestic violence incident....
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Man stabbed in neck with broken bottle
A woman has admitted stabbing a man in the neck with a broken glass bottle, causing four wounds that missed his jugular vein by 1mm. Ribena Aratangi, 32, pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding with...
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HIV-positive man admits dangerous sexual contact
A man who met men through social media and had consensual unprotected sex with them, has admitted that he did not tell them he was HIV positive. Johnny Lachlin Benjamin Lumsden, 26, was charged with...
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Two convicted of gang violence
Two men said to be associated with the Bandidos gang have been convicted of involvement in a violent incident in which two men were stabbed and a woman assaulted. The six guilty verdicts were delivered...
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Bail granted on wheelie bin arson charges
A Burnside man has appeared in court facing six charges of setting wheelie bins alight.The man, Michael Edward Brittenden, 39, was granted bail when he appeared on eight charges at the Christchurch...
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Lawyer convicted of meth possession
Christchurch lawyer Steven Welch Rollo has been fined on charges of possessing the class A drug methamphetamine and refusing to give his details to a police officer at a traffic stop. The fines were...
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Man admits ‘grenade’ threat to MP
A 39-year-old Linwood man has admitted sending an email that threatened a Member of Parliament with a grenade.Troy Rudigar Hutchinson pleaded guilty to the charge at the Christchurch District Court...
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Bizarre violent incident at mall
A 17-year-old has appeared in court facing eight charges after a bizarre incident at Westfield Mall in Riccarton on Sunday. No address was available for a bail application to be made, so Brandon Brown,...
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Teacher’s career ended by ‘technical assault’
A respected teacher’s long career has come to a sudden stop after he admitted an assault on a 12-year-old boy at St Thomas of Canterbury College. Gerard Francis Greenlees, 57, has given a voluntary...
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Court House sprinter charged
A woman who bolted from the dock and got out of the Court House as she was being sentenced to jail has been charged with escaping from custody.Nikita Chela McCausland, a 29-year-old mother of a...
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Parenting advice from judge over turtle smuggling
Sometimes parents must “just say no” even if it means disappointing a tearful child, said a judge as he fined a Christchurch mother for a biosecurity breach.The 43-year-old mother, Qiang Wei Luo, was...
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Home detention for bashing witness in court
A man who bashed a witness who had just given evidence against his stepfather at a High Court hearing has been allowed home detention. Christchurch District Court Judge Jane Farish said she was worried...
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Important fatal crash witnesses never came forward
Two vital witnesses who may have seen the accident in which 47-year-old motorcyclist Tessa Tui Conrad was killed were missing at the trial of the man who was today acquitted of causing her death. In...
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Three synthetic cannabis arrests
Three people charged with possession of synthetic cannabis for sale were remanded without plea at the Christchurch District Court today. All three share an address in Avonhead. They were arrested as...
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February date set for Marong murder trial
Sainey Marong will go on trial on February 12 for the murder of Christchurch sex worker Renee Larissa Duckmanton, whose body was found at the scene of a scrub fire near Rakaia on May 15 last year. The...
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Stupefying of sex victims alleged
A 60-year-old North Canterbury man charged with sex offending against six women or girls – including stupefying three of them – has been remanded on bail at the Christchurch District Court. The man...
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Charges dropped after defendant dies in crash
Police have dropped eight charges against a man killed in a crash in a stolen work van on Tuesday afternoon. Jeremiah Jason Dick, 30, was killed when the van stolen from a work site at a house in Innes...
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