Author Archive: Anne Clarkson
Ten more sex charges against businessman
A 61-year-old company director has pleaded not guilty to three sex charges, on the same day that police have laid 10 more charges.
Charity box theft admitted
A 17-year-old has admitted stealing a charity box from the counter of the Ibis Hotel on Hereford Street, and damaging of a door at the Baby Factory on Riccarton Road.
Tsunami burglary charge remand in custody
A 24-year-old man who allegedly burgled a home a family had evacuated because of the tsunami threat, was remanded in custody at the Christchurch District Court.
Drug offender ‘has not learnt from jail’
A man who was acquitted at trial of importing class A drugs into New Zealand over the “darkweb” last month has now been granted home detention on other drugs charges.
Ex-police officer’s ‘fall from grace’
An ex-police officer was sentenced to community detention for charging someone $1000 to help them through the court system over a traffic ticket, and then not following through.
Home detention for bad street assault
A man who caused brain damage when he punched his victim to the ground in a street assault has been granted home detention.
90-year-old sentenced on historic sex charge
A 90-year-old has been sentenced to three months’ home detention for sex offending dating back up to 53 years on a woman who has died since the complaint was made.
Laser light points to prison
A Hornby man who endangered passenger aircraft approaching Christchurch Airport by shining a laser pointer has been jailed for 10 weeks.
Not guilty verdicts in ‘darkweb’ drugs trial
A jury has accepted a Christchurch man’s claim that someone else must have ordered drugs on the “darkweb” using his computer.
Yaldhurst shooter claims self defence
A man who shot his victim in the thigh told the probation report writer that he was acting in self defence, the Christchurch District Court heard today.
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