Extravagant stories Kempson spent the years prior to his arrest moving between Auckland properties, frequently posting within Facebook groups for people hunting down flats. One former flatmate of Kempson's told Newshub soon after his arrest that while he was initially "chatty" and "reasonably easy to live with", he eventually became "aggressive". "[He had] a lot of stories that very quickly stopped making sense," she told Newshub. "If you would ever question his stories he would become incredibly defensive." The recounting of extravagant stories is consistently brought up by people who knew Kempson. Many were heard by the court during his trial. That includes claims that he was an oil company manager, the cousin of a prominent All Black, that he had gang connections, was friends with police officers, and had cancer.