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The laundry door frame, kitchen door frame and several windows were blown out and a fire started in the laundry, the summary says. Glass was blown about 25 metres, the roof cladding and framing were distorted and the adjoining bedroom and bathroom were damaged, the summary says.
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Cordons were put in place after reports of an explosion at a house in Invercargill on September 9, 2020. [File video] As a result, $46,000 of damage was done to the house, as well as $608.46 to a neighbour’s roof, the summary says. The couple were both treated in hospital with burnt faces and arms.
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Christiaan Paul Veldwijk, 44, was sentenced to home detention for two indecent assault charges in late 2019 when he appeared in the Invercargill District Court on Thursday.
A man convicted of indecent assault has shown a pattern of behaviour which is escalating, a judge says. Christiaan Paul Veldwijk, 44, appeared in the Invercargill District Court on Thursday and was sentenced to eight months’ home detention and ordered to pay a $500 emotional harm payment, having earlier admitted two charges of indecent assault on a female in late 2019. Judge Alison McLeod, referring to a pre-sentence report about Veldwijk, said his offending was related to sexual arousal and it appeared to be escalating given “two relevant prior convictions of indecent acts”, in 2010 and 2016.
Farmer gets home detention after 234 stock euthanised due to neglect
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A Southland farmer who had 234 of his stock euthanised because of emaciation and fly-strike was yesterday sentenced to nine months home detention.
Bevan Scott Tait (52) received his sentence by audiovisual link at the Invercargill District Court having earlier pleaded guilty to eight charges under the Animal Welfare Act for serious animal welfare offending.
The Ministry of Primary Industries animal welfare arm launched an investigation at Tait s Tussock Creek farm following a complaint in 2019.
The complaint led to a series of MPI, farm consultant and veterinarian inspections from April until August that year.