GROSSLY intoxicated young women, some incontinent and smeared in their own blood, are a symptom of Toast Martinborough wine festival’s “feral” drinking culture, police warn. “If their mothers could see them, they’d shut the festival down tomorrow,” the officer in charge of the event, Sergeant Kevin Basher, said. Martinborough residents have joined him in warning [...]
Child-sex offenders in spotlight as National focuses on law and order A SECOND-TERM National government will keep high-risk sex offenders behind bars indefinitely and may double the penalty for child-porn offences. Prime Minister John Key and Police and Corrections Minister Judith Collins announced the tough law-and-order policies in New Plymouth yesterday. Offenders who served their [...]
Paedophile may remain a risk The Crown is having second thoughts about its decision not to seek an open-ended preventive detention sentence for a 39-year old man [name removed] who disclosed more sex offences involving children, while he was undergoing treatment in prison. He disclosed 16 sex charges against eight young girls while doing the Kia Marama [...]
Former Crafar farms bidder May Wang has been charged with corruption in Hong Kong, over business dealings said to have happened here in New Zealand while she was trying to buy the dairy farms. Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption has charged the bankrupt May Wang with conspiring to bribe officials with two New Zealand [...]
POSTING racist or xenophobic messages on the internet and Holocaust denial could be illegal if New Zealand signs up to a international cyber-crime agreement. Justice Minister Simon Power and Police Minister Judith Collins yesterday announced a three-year plan to crack down on international organised crime. One proposal involves the Government signing the Council of Europe [...]
Womens Refuge is a charity registered with the Charities Commission and receives considerable government financial assistance. Its Chief Executive, Heather Henare, has attacked a decision issued by a Judge in the Wellington District Court relating to a man charged with a “degrading” assault. She claims the decision ”reeked of double standards”. A Te Papa manager has escaped conviction [...]
Three members of a South Canterbury family were booked for drink-driving on the same night. At 12.15 am on Saturday, a boy, 15, was stopped and arrested for drink-driving on State Highway 1 near Timaru. He blew 529 micrograms per litre of breath, more than three-and-a-half times the youth limit. He was taken to Timaru police [...]
Two Nelson teenagers have admitted beating a 16-year old schoolmate in an hour long ordeal before ordering him to strip to his underpants and lie in a crucifixion position while they mocked him and took photographs. The victim lost consciousness during the attack at a Nelson school last month, in which he was punched, kicked, [...]
The Dominion Post reports today: “[Stephen Peter] Crow, who is desperate not to carry a conviction as it would bar him from entering the United States where much of his pornography is obtained: said “I plead not guilty” [before Judge Russell Johnson in the Auckland District Court yesterday]. Crow’s “not guilty” plea was entered in relation [...]
The Ministry of Economic Development (MED) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) commented favourably in late December 2010 on the custodial sentences imposed by a judge on two company directors convicted of breaching the law, saying that the sentences sent a clear “denunciation and deterrent” message to other company directors. Prior to this judgment both directors had been banned for five years by [...]
Reality Check Needed on Shameful Child Abuse says Family First NZ
MEDIA RELEASE In a media release issued on 10 December 2011, Family First NZ, a registered charity with the Charities Commission, states: Family First is rejecting claims by the Children’s Commissioner and others that rising child abuse statistics are ‘good news’ and ‘delightful’, and is repeating its call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into [...]