Wilkinson was found two weeks after going missing with wounds likely made by a machete. Moananui represented himself at trial with the help of an amicus curiae, a court-appointed lawyer. He made various legal challenges against the case, including one after he was convicted following the jury trial. The final challenge was an application for a judicial review, which Moananui intended to serve on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy, Attorney-General David Parker and more. But they never got that far, with a registrar putting it before Justice Francis Cooke, QC, to be considered. The judge struck out the proceeding without hearing any legal arguments, finding it was an abuse of process.
Dombroski said he was really proud to receive the award. “I’m really pumped right now. I want to represent myself, my people and my loved ones,” the 29-year-old Wellington local said.
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The New Zealand Down Syndrome Association s national executive officer, Zandra Vaccarino, with award winner Jacob Dombrowski and Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy. Along with Dombroski, Rochelle Waters and Amelia Eades also received National Achievement Awards for their individual successes. Waters was a committee member of the Canterbury Down Syndrome Association, as well as a competitive swimmer and an instructor for dance group Jolt Dance. She also works at Darfield Bakery.
Dean has been chief executive of Pacific Trust Otago since 2014, having served an initial term from November 2010 to June 2011. He was the general manager of the Pacific Island Advisory and Cultural Trust in Invercargill from 2011 to 2014. Prior to those roles, he was the principal of Kew School and the founding principal of New River Primary School when it merged. He has helped establish an early childhood centre for Pacific children in 2001 and an after-school programme in the 1990s. Although his work is now in Otago, Dean still lives in Invercargill, where he moved in the 1960s from the Cook Islands.
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