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The victim’s elderly mother, who was in a wheelchair, had watched the attack. Tanirau Whaanga’s lawyer, Chris Nicholls, had said at sentencing that his client had attempted to get help for anger issues and was a walking time bomb just ready to go off. At the time Tanirau Whaanga headbutted the victim he was still serving a sentence of intensive supervision for an earlier attack in which he had stomped on the neck of a man laid out unconscious by a relative. The prone mans neck bore the p...

New Zealanders in India are devastated the government has taken the unprecedented step of suspending all travel from the Covid-19 hot spot leaving them stranded. Travel into New Zealand from India - including for New Zealand citizens and residents - is being temporarily suspended because of high numbers of Covid-19 cases Photo: RNZ From Sunday, no one can arrive here from India for 14 days - giving officials a chance to investigate ways to reduce the risk from a country where the coronavirus i...

New Zealanders in India are devastated the government has taken the unprecedented step of suspending all travel from the Covid-19 hot spot leaving them stranded. Travel into New Zealand from India - including for New Zealand citizens and residents - is being temporarily suspended because of high numbers of Covid-19 cases Photo: RNZ From Sunday, no one can arrive here from India for 14 days - giving officials a chance to investigate ways to reduce the risk from a country where the coronavirus i...

Police accused of racism over tactical use of pain on Māori 8 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 7 minutes to read Māori are subjected to painful force at a higher rate than other offenders, police figures show. Photo / File Māori are subjected to painful force at a higher rate than other offenders, police figures show. Photo / File Police are being accused of racism after their own figures confirm officers are more likely to use pain to subdue Māori suspects than for other ethnicities. Informatio...

A Government spokesman on Monday said Covid-19 had grown exponentially around the world and there was a new, more transmissible, strain since the Government last dismissed the offshore tests. The managed isolation and quarantine system remained New Zealand’s main protection, and pre-departure testing was “just another layer we are adding, as travel to NZ often involves several transit stops”. The new tests were legally justifiable because of the risk of Covid-19 to the wider New Zealand...

Report from RNZ by Te Aniwa Hurihanganui and Hamish Cardwell Police in the Wairarapa have admitted to illegally taking photos of youths after RNZ alerted them to multiple reports of officers stopping and photographing young Māori on the street. Whānau describe their sons walking alone during the day, when police have approached and insisted they take their picture. Marlene Harris said it happened to her son while he was walking home alone one afternoon in Masterton two years ago. He was just...

Police. Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson Whānau describe their sons walking alone in broad daylight, when police have approached and insisted they take their picture. Marlene Harris said it happened to her son while he was walking home alone one afternoon in Masterton two years ago. He was just 15 years old at the time. "He was just walking from his dads house back to my house and he was just minding his own business, walking along the street," she said. "From what he can remember, there were...

Wairarapa youths stopped and photographed by police 20 Dec, 2020 07:01 PM 5 minutes to read RNZ By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui and Hamish Cardwell, of RNZ. Police in Wairarapa have admitted to illegally taking photos of youths, after multiple reports were made of officers stopping and photographing young Māori on the street. Whānau said their sons were walking alone in broad daylight, when police approached and insisted they take their picture. Marlene Harris said it happened to her son while he wa...

He was just 15 years old at the time. "He was just walking from his dads house back to my house and he was just minding his own business, walking along the street," she said. "From what he can remember, there were two cops in the car. They just pulled up beside him and said that they needed to get his photo taken, or they would need to take him in." Harris said he was not really given a choice. "They did ask for permission, but it was more, can we have your photo taken?. And that followed by, i...