Tag: assault
Prison assault charge
A prisoner has been charged with a serious broomstick assault on another inmate at the Christchurch Men’s Prison three weeks ago.
Acquittal verdict ends bashing trial
A jury has taken just 30 minutes to acquit a St Albans man on a serious bashing charge.
Road-rage charges denied
A Hornby man is denying three charges relating to an alleged road-rage incident in Riccarton Road last month.
Trial hears different accounts of bashing
A 23-year-old man remembers pushing and wrestling but has no memory of the bashing that put him in hospital and now the defence in a Christchurch District Court trial says the case is a whodunit.
Assault, airgun charges denied
A man who allegedly assaulted his partner, and pointed an airgun at another woman at a birthday party in Rangiora, has denied the charges in the Christchurch District Court today.
Assault charge over casino incident
A Linwood man has denied a charge of assaulting a woman outside the Christchurch Casino in an incident early on New Year’s Day.
Prisoner told to stop behaving like a ‘spoiled brat’
A tattooed prisoner with a gang background has been told by a judge to stop behaving “like a spoiled brat”.
Apology from the dock as jail term begins
A man called “Sorry, mate” to his victim in the public gallery at court after being jailed for three years on a charge of injuring with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Texts evidence of ‘sinister’ assaults on toddler
A couple exchanged “sinister and upsetting” text messages over a four-day period when they were beating and probably kicking the woman’s three-year-old daughter, a judge said as he jailed the pair.
Psych report ordered in ill-treatment case
A psychiatric report has been ordered on an 18-year-old who has admitted four assaults on women, ill-treating a pet rat and a puppy, and damaging a bus.
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