Fresh charges over North Canterbury incident
New charges involving drugs, firearms and an alleged threat to kill have been laid against an Oxford man, three weeks after his arrest for a North Canterbury incident.
Jed Matthew Waghorn, a 21-year-old plasterer, is denying all the charges and has elected a jury trial.
At the Christchurch District Court today, Judge Raoul Neave remanded Waghorn in custody overnight for a bail application to be heard tomorrow. He is then remanded to a case review hearing on March 7, the next step on the path to a hearing before a jury.
The incident took place on the night of December 5 to 6, when police responded to a complaint that a man had been robbed between Cust and Pegasus township. Waghorn and a woman were arrested when armed police went to a property in Oxford.
They were jointly charged with robbing a man of his wallet and two cell phones while armed with a sawn-off shotgun.
The woman has been remanded on bail to a date in mid-January, without plea.
Waghorn has been held in custody since his arrest and appeared by video-link from Christchurch Men’s Prison at the court today.
One of the new charges allege he threatened to kill the man named as the victim in the robbery charge, at Christchurch on December 5.
He is then charged with unlawful possession of a cut-down Ruger 77 rifle, and unlawful possession of a shotgun cartridges, and .22 and 7mm rounds.
He also faces a charge of possession of the class A drug methamphetamine at Oxford, on December 6.
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