Archive for March, 2017
Judge can’t add to lifer’s jail term
Two men are not being made to pay for the $6000 damage they did in the Christchurch Men’s prison after they refused to go back to their cell during a lock-down period.
Suppression lifts on man shot by police
A man shot in the face by police in Christchurch in February had his name suppression lifted in the Christchurch District Court today.
Mob member admits police assault
A Mongrel Mob member has admitted punching a policeman three times, and breaking his glasses, in an incident during a traffic stop Cheviot, North Canterbury, in March last year.
More sex charges against company director
Four more sex charges were laid against company director John Michael Condon, in the Christchurch District Court today.
Victim ‘not happy’ with trial outcome
The bicycle-wheel thief whose leg was broken when he was run down by his victim in central Christchurch believes the driver should now be facing jail time.
Woman convicted over drug deal reprisal
A judge has found a woman guilty of holding a taser up to a drug dealer’s face, after a bogus drug deal the week before.
Christchurch man charged with blackmail
A New Brighton man has been remanded on a blackmail charge of threatening to disclose historic sexual offending by another man unless he was paid $40,000.
Trial hears of alleged reprisal over bad drugs
A woman denies holding a taser to a drug dealer’s face in what the Crown alleges was a reprisal for a drug deal gone wrong.
Theft victim drove car into offender, Crown alleges
A Christchurch man has told a jury he had no idea he had driven his car into the man who had just stolen the wheel of his bicycle, breaking his leg.
Conwoman continues fight for suppression
An accomplished con-woman has been given an extra two weeks to sort out the grounds why she should be allowed name suppression, while she awaits sentencing on two fraud charges.
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