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4-year 3-month jail term for $1.1m theft
Investigators can find little trace of $1,142,280 embezzled from her employers by a Christchurch woman with a gambling addiction.
Woman carried out robbery to prevent suicide
Deeply troubled and hearing voices, a 27-year-old Christchurch woman decided her best option to keep herself safe was to get locked up for a dairy robbery.
Vet nurse admits false drugs order
A woman who ordered three types of controlled drugs from a pharmaceutical supplier after resigning her job as a veterinary nurse has been put on supervision to deal with her drug dependency.
Court hears of teenager’s dangerous high speed run
Teenager Daniel William Taylor has been jailed for 15 months for a red-zone house burglary and for speeding through a red light at a busy Linwood intersection at 100km an hour.
Brazilian men in custody on drugs charges
Three Brazilian men have been remanded in custody after appearances in the Christchurch District Court on cocaine-related charges today.
Alleged on-line predator admits four charges
A man described by police as an on-line predator has pleaded guilty to four charges.
Court hears of ‘squalor’ of addiction
Michael Robert Loader was no drug world Mr Big. He manufactured and sold $400,000 worth of heroin, but because of his own addiction he lived in squalor.
Legal highs blamed for ‘violent and bizarre’ behaviour
Herbal cannabis was blamed for causing immense harm to young people who are acting in a violent and bizarre way, at a sentencing in the Christchurch District Court today.
Jail term for bashing pigs
A 50-year-old man who viciously beat two pigs with an iron bar was sent to prison for four months in the Christchurch District Court today.
Suppression protects child porn offender’s rehab chances
Name suppression has been granted to protect the chances for rehabilitation and forming “appropriate adult relationships” for a repeat viewer of child abuse pornography.
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