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The firefighter who was first to arrive at the house of murdered Rau Tongia gave his testimony at the trial.

The Montgomery County Recorder of Deeds held it's first Veteran Scam Jam to help veterans protect themselves from fraud.

The appeal lodged by the Speaker of the Parliament against the reinstatement of two senior members of the Opposition party is scheduled to be heard amongst eleven cases listed for appeal next week. Speaker of the House, Papalii Lio Masipau appealed the decision by the Supreme Court to nullify and...

A controversial police interrogation method that was implicated in a false confession is under fire from human rights lawyers, criminologists and psychologists.

Mike White05:00, May 01 2021 Newshub/Pool/Supplied Double murderer, sex offender, recidivist jailhouse snitch, and perjurer, Roberto Conchie Harris. Harris lied about David Tamihere confessing in prison to murdering Swedish tourists Heidi Paakkonen and Urbin Hoglin. He had also claimed inmates confessed to him in other high profile cases. New Zealand is finally attempting to deal with the problem of jailhouse snitches, known to have caused hundreds of wrongful convictions worldwide, but repeate...

Lithgow, representing Jennings, told the jury the Crown’s case was “a bit of a jigsaw”. “It is the jigsaw you would buy at a charity shop. You know what it is meant to look like, but a lot of bits are missing.” SUPPLIED Codi Wilkinson’s body was found in Bunnythorpe in September 2019. While all the other defendants deny they were involved in any attack on Wilkinson and Rowe or in kicking them out of the Mongrel Mob, Lithgow said the pair were being kicked out of the gang. There ...

They were attacked in Ashhurst and taken to Bunnythorpe, where the dealer lived and where Wilkinson was found dead two weeks after going missing. The trial in the High Court at Palmerston North is nearly over, with lawyers for Signal and Mariota Su’a giving closing addresses on Thursday. Signal’s lawyer, Charl Hirschfeld,​ said the Crown had painted Signal as the right-hand man of Mongrel Mob president Jeremiah Sua. It was not denied that the pair were working on a business venture u...

They deny murdering Wilkinson, kidnapping him and his friend Kyle Rowe​​​, wounding Rowe with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and participating in an organised criminal group. The Crown says Rowe and Wilkinson were attacked by fellow Mongrel Mob members because they robbed a Bunnythorpe drug dealer without permission and failed to share the proceeds. Thompson was the last witness in the Crown case, which opened in February. He spent his time in the witness box being grilled on va...

On Monday Hewitt told the jury she’d seen Rowe with blood coming from his head while outside her Ashhurst house the night Wilkinson was allegedly killed. Wilkinson was at the house and when men arrived he went outside with Rowe, telling Hewitt to stay inside, she had said. Signal’s lawyer Charl Hirschfeld​ questioned Hewitt’s memory of the night, saying she was stressed and unable to accurately recall everything. She disagreed. “I was focusing on my child and everything, really. Y...

Codi Wilkinson was allegedly killed by a group of fellow Mongrel Mob members in September 2019. An Aotearoa Mongrel Mob president allegedly bought booze and pizza for fellow gang members while a man they are accused of murdering lay dead in a garden hedge, a court has heard. The death allegedly happened because a junior mobster crossed that president, Jeremiah Sua​, one time too many. The gangland and criminal justice systems came together in the High Court at Palmerston North on Thursday, ...