In the kitchen, he picked up a small knife and held onto it, a police summary of facts said. Lamosi, a Samoan man in New Zealand on the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme, appeared at the Blenheim District Court on Monday.
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Lamosi appeared at the Blenheim District Court on Monday. Through an interpreter, he pleaded guilty to two charges of wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Each charge carried a maximum penalty of 14 years’ imprisonment. The summary of facts, read out in court, said a housemate, a 32-year-old Samoan man, stood up from the dinner table and challenged Lamosi, telling him to stop swearing.
“The board are comfortable there s little risk to the children at the school, and that little risk has been mitigated, from the measures of fencing around the site, and he is being supervised, he doesn’t have any contact with the kids.” Most of Ivamy’s work was inside the school gym, which had been condemned. Initially the work was to repair some rooms attached to the gym, but an engineer found the beams were starting to degrade due to delamination. Work to strengthen the gym was in its final stages so Ivamy would not be onsite much longer, Payne said.