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The whānau of a man who was fatally shot by police was blamed for leaking court documents by a coroner, despite there being no evidence the whānau had done so.

In a major u-turn, the police watchdog has found constant, late-night checks on Shargin Stephens were unreasonable and may have contributed to him lashing out, before police fatally shot him.

In May 2021, Shona Brenssell and Dale Waitokia got word that Brenssell’s husband’s name had been cleared, and he was not responsible for causing the crash as police initially indicated, when Coroner Peter Ryan found it was unfair to say Wayne had contributed to the accident. The first coroners report concluded that Wayne’s erratic driving – and more specifically, a braking manoeuvre – caused the crash. The pair had been employed by Calder Developments. Instead, Coroner Ryan put th...

Initial investigations suggested that a braking manoeuvre from Brenssell was the cause of the crash. After taking more evidence and expert opinion into account, Coroner Ryan found it was more likely the A-frame collapsed as they entered the bend, shifting the weight, and initiating the roll-over sequence. This is what their families believed had happened and why they kept pushing to change the initial finding. Kavinda Herath/Stuff Shona Brenssell, left, and Dale Waitokia have been fighting f...

Police have praised two Otago families for fighting for years to find out what caused a truck crash that killed two men.

Katarina Williams05:00, May 01 2021 Supplied Janet Nye, pictured here at Waitarere, a few months before her October 2018 trekking death in Ladakh, India. The man who led a trekking trip to India, in which a Wellington woman died after developing acute mountain sickness, concedes the “window” to help her descend from high altitude in the hours before she died was missed. But despite being appointed to lead by the trip organiser, the Mountain Clubs of New Zealand (FMC) Travel Club, Joe Nawal...

SUPPLIED Mountaineer Joe Nawalaniec became the first recorded solo climber to summit Kang Yatse, a peak in the Himalayas in northern India in 2017. He was the trip leader on the trek Janet Nye died on the following year. The death of Wellington woman Janet Nye on a trekking trip to Ladakh, organised by the Federated Mountain Club (FMC) Travel Club, is being scrutinised at a coronial inquest at Wellington District Court. Reference has been made to documents that Nye’s oxygen tank may have bee...