Man faces eight charges after police chase
A 21-year-old Upper Riccarton man has been remanded in custody on eight charges laid after a police pursuit in New Brighton at the weekend. Jesse Grimwood entered no pleas when he appeared before Judge...
View ArticleCouple admits receiving tour group’s belongings
A couple have admitted receiving the contents of a Chinese tourist group’s trailer – towed away in a brazen daylight theft while the visitors dined at a Christchurch restaurant. The Christchurch...
View ArticleSuppression lifts on grave plaque thief
Name suppression has lifted on a Christchurch woman who pleaded guilty last month to stealing 37 war veteran plaques from Springston Cemetery. The woman, Gail Maree Wickes, has also now admitted...
View Article‘No forgiveness’ for riverbed killers
Family say they will never forget Bradley Alan Lomax – executed on a shingle track along the Waimakariri River – and they will never forgive his killers. A relative reading her victim impact statement...
View ArticleSeven years’ jail for burglary gang member
A 21-year-old’s “appalling” background has led a judge to reduce his jail term for involvement in a burglary ring that caused losses approaching $250,000. Even with the reduction, Sharn Robert Noble...
View Article$31,000 of stolen gear found at St Albans house
A 29-year-old was buying and selling stolen goods from home because he was unable to work while on electronically monitored bail. Police found $31,000 worth of stolen gear when they raided James...
View ArticleMan admits parking meter raids
A 45-year-old man admits raids on Christchurch parking meters but disputes that he was responsible for breaking into 178 of them and causing losses totalling $145,064. Brent John Davie, unemployed,...
View ArticleSupervision for role in fatal drugs shake-down
A 31-year-old whose manslaughter conviction for the death of Ashburton man Arran Gairns was overturned on appeal has now been released on supervision. Kooly Mangaki Te Tomo was found guilty of...
View ArticleCemetery plaque thief jailed for 26 months
Christchurch’s courts rang to the sound of a waiata as a woman who stole brass plaques from a cemetery was told she had committed “an affront to all things sacred and decent”. The waiata was part of a...
View ArticlePrisoner’s ‘cultural identity’ to be changed
A judge has ordered that prisoner’s “cultural identification” be officially changed from pakeha to Samoan as he begins a four-year jail term. The criminal justice system’s records for James Anthony...
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