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A 19-year-old has ended up spending four weeks in custody for some relatively minor offending because he failed – as the judge put it – to “take care of business”.

March 21, 2014 | By David Clarkson More

Home detention for home invasion

A man who carried out an armed burglary because he said he felt “ripped off” by the intended victim has been sentenced to home detention for seven months.

March 19, 2014 | By David Clarkson More

Man jailed for ‘exploitive’ attempt at sex

The family of a brain-injured woman has refused an offer of money from the man who has been jailed for trying to have sex with her.

March 19, 2014 | By David Clarkson More

Cannabis growing venture went up in flames

An Oxford man is sorry and embarrassed about the public humiliation that his cannabis growing efforts have brought for himself and his family.

March 17, 2014 | By David Clarkson More

Career burglar back in jail

A biking burglar who isn’t slowing down at age 59 has been given his 19th jail sentence.

March 17, 2014 | By David Clarkson More

Man denies neck stabbing charge

A man accused of stabbing another man in the neck in an incident in Spreydon last month is denying the charge.

March 17, 2014 | By Anne Clarkson More

Sex-texting charges dropped

All charges have been dropped against a 36-year-old Taihape man who exchanged sex-texts with girls aged 11 to 13 years.

March 14, 2014 | By Anne Clarkson More

Father-of-two admits drugs charges

A Christchurch father-of-two has been told not to have “unrealistic expectations” about a possible home detention sentence after pleading guilty to 16 charges arising from the police’s Operation Nebraska nationwide investigation.

March 14, 2014 | By David Clarkson More