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Businessman Leo Molloy was fined and sentenced to community service for breaching name suppression during the Grace Millane trial. The woman admitted indecent assault and the man pleaded guilty to inciting indecent assault in relation to an incident in June 2019. They were in a vehicle with a friend they regularly partied with. The woman tried to put a plastic spoon into the friend’s bottom while he slept, with the man filming and encouraging her actions. The victim awoke wondering what was happening. The duo suggested he use the spoon to eat ice cream. Although they were convicted in the district court, where no application for name suppression was made, their convictions were overturned by Mallon on appeal to the High Court.
She blew 819 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath, well above the legal limit of 250mcg. She gave police someone else’s name and details in place of her own. That person was later arrested, after Papanui failed to appear in court, and kept in police custody until Papanui was identified as the true offender. Defence lawyer Mark Alderdice said Papanui had been at a concert with friends, who were doing shots of alcohol. Someone else drove at first, but Papanui substituted after that person hit the curb, Alderdice said. She gave false details because she thought the car would be impounded since she was driving while suspended.
Jono Galuszka16:32, Jul 13 2021
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Rodney Scott Fisher has been told to be ready for prison when he is sentenced in the Palmerston North District Court for cannabis offending.
A man has been told to prepare for prison after he and a woman were caught growing cannabis and having the product ready to supply to others. Rodney Scott Fisher, 54, pleaded guilty in the Palmerston North District Court on Tuesday to cultivating cannabis and possessing it for supply His co-accused Katie Marie Fisher, 52, pleaded guilty to the same charges the prior week. The pair were arrested after police raided their rural Halcombe property in April.
He arrived at the woman’s address unannounced, kicked in the glass back door and entered without permission. He put the woman into a headlock and pulled her to the ground after finding her in the toilet, during which her nose was bitten – something he said was an accident. He then took her cellphone, forced her to sit on a coach, yelled at, slapped and punched her before demanding she pay him $4400. He repeatedly threatened to harm her as he prevented her from sleeping for 11 hours, finally letting her sleep in her child’s bedroom. She thought she or others in the house would be harmed if she tried to leave.