Archive for July, 2017
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.
Brothers competing to pay for damage
Brothers Jimmy and Rupert Max Ellis-Jones have not quite reached agreement about how to pay for all the damage they did on a drunken spree through Phillipstown and Woolston.
Boy run over by water tanker
Fernside horse trainer Philip Benjamin Burrows has admitted a Worksafe New Zealand prosecution after a 10-year-old boy apparently fell under the wheels of a water truck at a training track.
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.
Bail granted on wheelie bin arson charges
A Burnside man has appeared in court facing six charges of setting wheelie bins alight.
Shaken baby suffered brain bleed
Name suppression has been granted to a father who admits hitting and shaking his infant son, causing a brain bleed.
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.
Bogus gynaecologist jailed for ‘examination’
A homeless man who told a 19-year-old woman he was a specialist gynaecologist has been jailed for four years one month for the “examination” that took place next.
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.
Gang trial accused was ‘shocked by violence’
A man who went with Bandidos gang associates to the scene of a multiple stabbing had been “shocked and surprised” when the bloody violence erupted, the defence said at the trial of two Christchurch men.
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