Archive for April, 2015
Four arrests after Woolston house search
A man is due in the Christchurch District Court today after a raid by armed police in Woolston yesterday.
Roadside attacker ‘went nuts’ — judge
A judge said a 46-year-old Parklands man went “nuts” when he bashed unconscious a man who had stumbled into the vehicle he was driving.
Four-year term for sex assaults on sleeping women
A 22-year-old Christchurch man has been jailed for four years for sexual assaults on two sleeping women.
Three deny prison murder charges
Three men charged with the murder in prison of Benton Marni Parata have pleaded not guilty at a pre-trial appearance in the High Court at Christchurch.
More sex allegations against bus driver
Bail has been refused for a Christchurch bus driver who faced 17 more sex charges at an appearance in the Christchurch District Court today.
No extra jail time for mobster
A judge decided not to extend a jail term for the Mongrel Mob man who was being sentenced for unlawfully taking the car he later crashed, killing a 15-year-old passenger.
Man told to keep out of police business
A 20-year-old has been told to mind his own business when the police are going about theirs — and jailed for 10 months.
Jail for sex industry stabbing
One of the youngest people placed on the methadone programme at a Christchurch rehabilitation centre has been jailed for over four years for stabbing a man in a sex industry fracas last May.
Further psychiatric report ordered in road rage case
A psychiatric report on a man’s fitness to stand trial has been ordered in a case involving allegations over a violent road rage incident in North Canterbury.
‘I have done some very bad things, Dad’
Manson Antonievic wrote from prison to his father: “I am always thinking about things that aren’t right, and obsessing constantly about murdering chicks.”
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