A Taranaki gang member who had admitted his part in using standover tactics to steal a car has had his request to cancel his guilty pleas, in order to get into a rehab program, dismissed.
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Former Taranaki church pastor Nicholas Keig, pictured with his lawyer Susan Hughes QC, was sentenced on four charges of indecent assault. (file photo)
A woman who lost her job because she was afraid to walk alone could not tell her employer it was due to an indecent assault by her former pastor, the New Plymouth District Court heard. “I lost who I was,” she said in one of the four victim impact statements read at the sentencing hearing of Nicholas Keig. Keig, former pastor of the C3 (Christian City Church) in New Plymouth, was found guilty of four charges of indecent assault following a judge-alone trial in November last year.
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A man who stole a $10k motorbike from the side of the road has been sentenced in New Plymouth. (file photo)
A man hid a $10,500 stolen motorbike at his rural Taranaki property for a year before police located it – and some cannabis plants to boot. Corey Peter Douglas came across the 2013 Honda VFR on the side of Mōkau Rd (State Highway 3), Mimi, in May 2019, after it was left there following damage in an accident, according to a police summary of facts. Douglas drove a motorcycle trailer to the spot, loaded the bike onto it, and drove it to his home in Urenui, hiding it in his garage.
Her partner was waiting in a vehicle outside and he told O Neill to leave the woman alone. O’Neill approached him and pair began to fight. O’Neill threw a number of punches and one connected to the victim’s head, causing swelling around his right eye. When the woman tried to intervene, O Neill punched her towards her head area and pushed her to the ground towards a concrete wall, causing her to hit her head and get a small wound. Both victims jumped in their vehicle to try and get away, but O’Neill picked up a wheelie bin and smashed it on to the windscreen.