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In what is an "unquestionably sad" case, lawyer says it was "only a matter of time" before his client reoffended after spending more of the last 10 years in prison than he has out.
Police did not press charges until this year, having spent some months analysing the logbooks, but the offending ended in June 2020, Arnott said. After lockdown, Webb’s company was reduced to delivering half loads of groceries, with his second truck off the road. “The financial problems from being off the road, and his significant business debts, increased – he had to increase his business overdraft by $21,000, so it is now sitting at more than $80,000,” Arnott said. “The Covid wage subsidy was not enough to cover his expenses, as it was just for wages, not debts.” If Webb...
That person failed a drug screening test, and as a result the truck sat idle for a while, the summary said. Davies, who lived in Picton at the time but had since moved to North Canterbury, was unable to find a replacement, so did the work himself. Between November 15 and December 2 there were only two days that Davies complied with the appropriate rest required for a truck driver. Truck drivers cannot exceed 13 hours a day behind the wheel. The summary said Davies work day breaches ranged from 14 hours and 3 minutes, to 23 hours in a day. Between November 15 and November 23, 2019, Davie...
A short time later, police found Mason. The summary said she immediately became argumentative and aggressive. Despite several warnings she grabbed onto a police officer’s wrist and tried to push him away, the summary said. Mason was arrested and placed into the back of a patrol vehicle. The officer was standing next to Mason speaking to her through an open door and Mason kicked him several times in the thigh. Ricky Wilson/Stuff She also spat at him, hitting him on the arm. While being driven to the police station the defendant repeated multiple times over a 25-minute period she was g...
The teenagers in the bedroom were not the alleged victims. The 19-year-old, who had no previous convictions, was taken into custody. Duty lawyer Kent Arnott said the three teenagers showed up to the house uninvited. Arnott said the accused and his mother had since accepted they should not have let the teenagers into the house. “He's certainly had time to reflect on things, as has his mother,” Arnott said. Bail was opposed by police, however Judge Richard Russell granted the man bail at the Blenheim District Court on Monday, with the same conditions as previously, and with a new ...