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The victim’s elderly mother, who was in a wheelchair, had watched the attack. Tanirau Whaanga’s lawyer, Chris Nicholls, had said at sentencing that his client had attempted to get help for anger issues and was a walking time bomb just ready to go off. At the time Tanirau Whaanga headbutted the victim he was still serving a sentence of intensive supervision for an earlier attack in which he had stomped on the neck of a man laid out unconscious by a relative. The prone man's neck bore the pattern from the sole of Tanirau Whaanga's shoe. John Pratt​, a professor of Criminology at the I...

New Zealanders in India are devastated the government has taken the unprecedented step of suspending all travel from the Covid-19 hot spot leaving them stranded. Travel into New Zealand from India - including for New Zealand citizens and residents - is being temporarily suspended because of high numbers of Covid-19 cases Photo: RNZ From Sunday, no one can arrive here from India for 14 days - giving officials a chance to investigate ways to reduce the risk from a country where the coronavirus is rampant. That's reflected in the cases picked up in managed isolation here, with 80 percent in the...

New Zealanders in India are devastated the government has taken the unprecedented step of suspending all travel from the Covid-19 hot spot leaving them stranded. Travel into New Zealand from India - including for New Zealand citizens and residents - is being temporarily suspended because of high numbers of Covid-19 cases Photo: RNZ From Sunday, no one can arrive here from India for 14 days - giving officials a chance to investigate ways to reduce the risk from a country where the coronavirus is rampant. That's reflected in the cases picked up in managed isolation here, with 80 percent in the...

Police accused of racism over tactical use of pain on Māori 8 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 7 minutes to read Māori are subjected to painful force at a higher rate than other offenders, police figures show. Photo / File Māori are subjected to painful force at a higher rate than other offenders, police figures show. Photo / File Police are being accused of racism after their own figures confirm officers are more likely to use pain to subdue Māori suspects than for other ethnicities. Information released to the Herald under the Official Information Act shows officers resorted to the ...

A Government spokesman on Monday said Covid-19 had grown exponentially around the world and there was a new, more transmissible, strain since the Government last dismissed the offshore tests. The managed isolation and quarantine system remained New Zealand’s main protection, and pre-departure testing was “just another layer we are adding, as travel to NZ often involves several transit stops”. The new tests were legally justifiable because of the risk of Covid-19 to the wider New Zealand community. supplied Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman said the pre-border testing was misguided and c...