Friday, 15 January 2021, 5:47 pm
All work with gas must be done by the book – because
when things go wrong, the consequences can be grave, says
WorkSafe.
Certifying
gasfitter Gregory John Smith was repairing a fireplace at a
home in Christchurch in July 2019. As part of the repairs he
removed a gas valve, which is used to control the flow of
gas. He advised he would return the next day to complete the
repairs.
“However, Smith had not disconnected the
gas supply to the heater (by capping the open pipe) before
leaving and did not instruct residents of the property not
to turn the gas supply back on,” says WorkSafe’s Manager
STUFF
Christchurch teacher Denise Robinson-Winskill was run over twice by her husband in the driveway of their home in 2013. Police have not closed the file.
Seven years after Denise Robinson-Winskill was killed by her husband as he reversed his flat-deck truck, the investigation remains open. Sam Sherwood revisits the case. Denise Robinson-Winskill was in the sheep pen taking some photographs of a newborn lamb when her husband, Jon Winskill, beckoned her over to help. It was about 7.30pm, October 23, 2013. The 56-year-old spraying contractor was on his truck, a 1980 Toyota Land Cruiser flat deck, filling the tanks with water, and needed his wife to turn the valve tap off. Denise, 58, wearing pyjamas, gumboots and a raincoat, struggled but managed to turn it off.
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A Moment In Crime Podcast: Tragedy in the hills - the mysterious death of polo star Lauren Biddle
19 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
5 minutes to read
Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask
After a high profile trial in November this year, Christchurch engineer Joseph McGirr was acquitted by a jury of giving Ecstasy to a US polo player before she died in his spa bath.
But he was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice by burying her clothing after her death.
The case was bizarre, captivating and tragic - and then after all of the details emerged in the courtroom, a jury spent days deliberating before coming to their decision late on a Friday.