Man on trial for threatening to kill PM sent 88 abusive emails Michael Cruickshank outside the North Shore District Court. Photo / File Man on trial for threatening to kill PM sent 88 abusive emails Mon, 26 Jul 2021, 2:33PM "I will personally wipe you off this planet" and "I will blow your head off" are death threats a man allegedly sent to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and then Justice Minister Andrew Little among a barrage of abusive emails over a three-month period. The Crown alleges Michael Cruickshank, in his 50s, regularly referred to the Prime Minister and Government as criminals, slave traders and state-sanctioned terrorists among some 88 lengthy emails he sent between October 2019 and January 2020.