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Assault on elderly couple alleged
District Court jury trial set for this week for 59-year-old Douglas James Archer charged with the bashing and robbery of his mother and stepfather at their home in St Martins, on March 1, 2013.
Find out more »Teenager admits two rapes
Remand in custody for sentencing for an 18-year-old from Loburn, in rural North Canterbury, who has admitted the rape of a 17-year-old woman in a car near Christchurch Airport, and then the abduction of an 11-year-old girl from a playground a few hours later, and her rape
Find out more »Remand on bar armed robbery charges
Remand in custody for Jackson Whakatihi, also known as Manson, aged 24, charged with the armed robbery of two Christchurch bars on January 26, 2014. Two masked men robbed the Coasters bar in Redwood, and then allegedly assaulted a patron while attempting to rob The Brewery bar at The Tannery shopping centre in Woolston. Whakatihi, who is listed as being of no fixed abode in central Christchurch, has admitted robbing the Coasters bar, but denies being involved with the incident later that night at The Brewery…
Find out more »Linwood murder trial
Likely start date for a two-week trial which was scheduled to begin in the High Court at Christchurch for Timothy Joseph Foley, aged 53, unemployed, who is charged with the murder of Michelle Mary Lawrence, who was injured in an incident at a Linwood address on June 10,2012, and died about three weeks later in hospital.
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