Man who raped tourist in Paeroa cemetery guilty of historical sex assault in Raglan
Police used DNA from the 2020 crime to link Darryl Bridgeman to a similar unsolved case in the seaside town from 2006.
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Police used DNA from the 2020 crime to link Darryl Bridgeman to a similar unsolved case in the seaside town from 2006.
Police used DNA from the 2020 crime to link Darryl Bridgeman to a similar unsolved case in the seaside town from 2006.
Ellen O'Dwyer13:27, Aug 04 2021 SUPPLIED Jaden Chhayrann, 17, went missing off Waihī Beach on February 21, 2020, after getting caught in a rip while swimming. A Hamilton high school board of trustees is facing WorkSafe charges over the death of a 17-year-old student on a school trip. Lawyer Caitlyn Frost appeared on behalf of Melville High School’s board of trustees in the Hamilton District Court on Wednesday. The board is facing charges relating to Jaden Chhayrann’s death. Jaden was on a class field trip to Waihī Beach on February 21, 2020, when he was caught in a rip while swimming ...
Mike Mather16:07, May 27 2021 Mark Taylor/Stuff A former Hamilton Junior High School board of trustees chairman, Kieran Martin-McManus, has been jailed for two years and nine months. A former school board of trustees chairman has been sent to jail after falsely accusing a teacher of having sex with a student. The lie, dubbed “evil” by one of its victims, all but destroyed the teacher’s career until she was fully cleared in court two years later. Kieran Martin-McManus, 33, was jailed for two years and nine months when he appeared in the Hamilton District Court on Thursday, after earlie...
Lawrence Smith/Stuff Zachary Grant used a fake Facebook account to pressure young women into sending sexual pictures, and his real one to “curry favour” and pretend he would help them. Photo posed by a model. Zachary Grant used a fake Facebook account to threaten and blackmail young women into sending him sexual images. “Get naked now or your family dies,” he told one victim. “Do you remember when your nudes went viral?” he asked another. But with another account, under his own name, Grant would “curry favour”, encouraging the women to comply with the anonymous demands and ...