Alleged kidnap victim admits wrongly naming two people
An alleged Mongrel Mob victim has admitted he made some mistakes in naming the people who had kidnapped and bashed him, soon after his escape and while he was in hospital.
Dawson Reihana, 35, acknowledged on day four of the trial of seven Aotearoa Mongrel Mob members and associates in the High Court at Christchurch that he had wrongly named two people as being present.
Defence counsel Margaret Sewell, for one of the accused, Mathew James Rowe, accused Reihana of “naming anyone you knew who belonging to the Mongrel Mob in Christchurch” in his recorded interview with the police while he was in hospital.
She said he had named people whether he saw them there or not, and Reihana acknowledged that he had made mistakes in naming two people who were not there. “I was assuming because my eyes were closed and I was wiped right out,” he said.
“I definitely saw the people who are on trial,” he said.
Reihana, who was a member of the Mob’s Notorious chapter, told the court he was bashed and kidnapped at Ajax Street in Shirley on August 8, 2015, and said it was “like a rugby scrum” when he was taken bound in a van and arrived at a Bowenvale Avenue address in Cashmere.
There were 10 people present, he said. “They were all lined up like a rugby scrum – lined up to attack me.”
He had told the court on Monday that people had taken turns to attack him at random times during the night he was there.
He told of chewing through the tape he had been bound with after his “guard” fell asleep, and calling the police on a cellphone in the room.
Seven people are on trial charged with kidnapping and bashing, and Reihana was told on Monday that three other people had pleaded guilty before the trial.
Before the court, after pleading not guilty to all charges, are Matthew Joshua Mulvey, 35, Leon Delshannon Turner, 41, a builder, Peter Damian Gilbert, 46, a concrete worker, August Keefe, 57, Mathew James Rowe, 41, a bricklayer, Jason Phillip Reweti, 35, a labourer, and Dylan Raymond Shannon Corbin, 27.
All are charged with kidnapping Reihana. Mulvey, Turner, and Gilbert are charged with wounding him with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. All except Keefe are charged with injuring him with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The trial before Justice Cameron Mander and a jury is continuing. It is expected to take more than two weeks.
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