Archive for May, 2016
Cash gives clue to scale of city’s meth addiction
The jailing of a drug dealer may have given a clue to the size of Christchurch’s methamphetamine problem.
Jail imposed after botched home detention term
After being given a chance by a judge after admitting a gang stabbing in Linwood, Nathan Anthony Whelan has botched his home detention sentence and gone to jail anyway.
Greymouth murder trial date set
February 20 has been set for the start of the trial of a 30-year-old man charged with the murder of 15-month-old Leith Allen Hutchison in Greymouth a year ago.
Man charged with concealing murder evidence
A second person has been charged with helping to conceal evidence after the alleged murder of Marcus Luke Tucker whose bashed and burnt body was found near Lake Ellesmere.
Family feud led to house being torched
A family feud led to a woman burning down the Darfield house where her sister and two children lived.
Manslaughter plea ends Rangiora murder trial
A 39-year-old Rakaia man has halted a High Court murder trial by admitting the manslaughter of a Rangiora man during what the Crown says was a drugs robbery gone wrong.
Bizarre performance brings custody remand
A man’s bizarre courtroom behaviour has landed him in custody for six weeks awaiting sentencing.
Charge dropped over city squatters’ pad
A charge of setting fire to a squatters’ pad in central Christchurch has been dropped by the Crown.
Drone pilot ’caused danger’, judge rules
A judge has ruled that drone pilot Simon Roy Reeve caused danger by flying his 2kg drone when there was a helicopter operating close by at Pines Beach, near Kaiapoi.
Tourist fined for shooting endangered blue duck
A Danish tourist will have to pay $10,000 for shooting a rare and endangered native blue duck, a whio, in South Westland.
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