Recidivist Dunedin thief out to fix his life steals tools instead
15 May, 2021 12:17 AM
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Paul Anthony Peter Bell and his partner drove to Mitre 10 Mega in South Dunedin and took multiple tools and power tools. Photo / 123rf
Paul Anthony Peter Bell and his partner drove to Mitre 10 Mega in South Dunedin and took multiple tools and power tools. Photo / 123rf
Otago Daily Times
By: Rob Kidd
A recidivist thief with more than 160 convictions might be an old dog but he is capable of new tricks , his lawyer says.
Paul Anthony Peter Bell managed to talk his way out of a prison term when he was sentenced on dishonesty and driving charges last year.
Pool cue violation: Threat of jail stifles sentence review
14 May, 2021 03:13 AM
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Benjamin Keach. Photo / Rob Kidd, ODT
Otago Daily Times
By: Rob Kidd
A Clutha man who used a pool cue to violate a rugby player made a bid to have his sentence changed – until threatened with imprisonment.
In December last year, Benjamin Roger Keach, 41, pleaded guilty to injuring with reckless disregard and was sentenced at the Dunedin District Court to six months community detention and 250 hours community work.
He was back in court this afternoon where his counsel Gordon Paine made a fleeting application to have the sentence adjusted.
Man sentenced for groping at Dunedin bar
13 May, 2021 07:49 PM
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A woman who was groped in a Dunedin bar says she still has nightmares about the incident nearly a year later. Photo / NZH
A woman who was groped in a Dunedin bar says she still has nightmares about the incident nearly a year later. Photo / NZH
Otago Daily Times
A woman who was groped in a Dunedin bar says she still has nightmares about the incident nearly a year later.
Mark Stephen McNeill, 56, appeared in the Dunedin District Court last week after being found guilty of indecent assault at a judge-alone trial in February.
Dunedin burglars jailed 15 months for drunken crime spree
13 May, 2021 08:26 PM
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Teremoana Taokia (left), and Wayne Bennett. Photo / ODT
Otago Daily Times
A Dunedin student who went to retrieve his stolen cellphone found the burglar who had raided his flat was less than apologetic.
Teremoana Taokia, 52, argued with the 20-year-old victim then gave him the phone back, after urinating on it.
He came before the Dunedin District Court yesterday after admitting three burglaries, all of which occurred during a drunken spree in the city s student sector on January 17.
His co-defendant Wayne Bennett, 39, pleaded guilty to two of the break-ins.
It was the scene of a frenzied stabbing, and now the supermarket where four people were attacked has been cleaned and a blessed before customers are welcomed again.