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David Kuka was a familiar face in downtown Tauranga, athough shoppers would hear his voice before they saw him.
Tall and rangy, with long dark hair, the 52

David Kuka was a familiar face in downtown Tauranga, athough shoppers would hear his voice before they saw him. Tall and rangy, with long dark hair, the...

A Mongrel Mob gang member who shot an innocent man twice at close range “execution-style” and then left him for dead will spend at least 15 years in prison....

Mongrel Mob captain Adrian John Rewiri has been jailed after having the vehicle used in a 2018 murder stripped of evidence and crushed. Members of murder...

A jury has found three Mongrel Mob gang members not guilty of murder.
Luke William Belmont, Maru Puriri Michael Wright and Adrian John Rewiri have been on

One of the trio was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact to murder.

The jury has retired to consider its verdict.

Crown: 'This murder would not have happened without these three defendants.'

The Tauranga man was shot twice just weeks after a gang member was killed at same address.

Four years after the execution-style killing of a father-of-four, the last man accused of his murder can now be revealed.
Interim name suppression for Maru