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According to sentencing notes published in January, the company and Berendt faced the same four charges, related to the management of silage and effluent on the farm on Kākāriki Road, Eketāhuna. About 300 cows are milked on the farm, which had consents for discharging effluent and storing silage refuse. However, effluent could not be allowed to enter surface water or encroach within 20 metres of watercourses. The silage refuse had similar rules. Horizons Regional Council officers found a myriad of issues when visiting Huka View multiple times between October 2017 and 2018. Silage refuse was once found two metres from a flowing stream and was still there a year later, despite Berendt being told to move it.
In the Palmerston North District Court on Wednesday, Kalivati pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering. Other drug-related charges were dropped. O’Connell was sentenced last month to nine years jail for his involvement and three others – Emma Jane Armstrong, Stephen Heta Puhipuhi and Alice Irene Andrews – were also sentenced on drug-related charges.
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Gary Colin O’Connell spent his life in the drug trade, leading to him earning $4 million in five years dealing methamphetamine. The court heard Kalivati used several methods to spend the money, such as using cash to pay for expensive holidays, vehicles and property.
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A 54-year-old man pleaded not guilty in the Palmerston North District Court to the manslaughter of a woman in October 2019.
A 54-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter more than a year after a woman’s death. The man pleaded not guilty in the Palmerston North District Court on Thursday to the charge. A charging document states the man, who was given interim name suppression, allegedly caused the woman’s death in Palmerston North by assaulting her between October 13 and 16, 2019. The law previously prevented people from being held criminally responsible for a death that occurred more than a year and a day after the act that contributed to the person dying.
Brown, breaching the learner licence she had been on for nine years by driving without L-plates and a fully licensed driver, was heading south from Palmerston North towards Rangiotu. She moved into a right turning bay to turn on to Rangiotu Rd and saw the headlight of Bell’s motorcycle. She misjudged the distance, turning into his path. He hit her Toyota on the front passenger side, the force of the crash ripping the front wheel and steering from his motorcycle. Bell, who was travelling between 44kmh and 68kmh at the time of the crash, was thrown as far as 30 metres.