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Home detention teen found with $6k of cannabis
Thursday, May 24, 2012
More than $6000 worth of cannabis was found at the house of a Rotorua teen - one month before he completed a sentence of home detention, a court has heard.Panelbeater Daniel Managh, 18, appeared before Rotorua District Court this...
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Gwaze trial told: 'Good men sometimes do bad things'
Thursday, May 24, 2012
The Crown says George Gwaze's crime is inexcusable.The 60-year-old denies the murder and sexual violation of 10-year-old Charlene Makaza in Christchurch in 2007.His defence argues she died as a result of complications of HIV.Crown...
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Doctor fined for wrongly claimed funding
Thursday, May 24, 2012
An Auckland doctor has been censured and ordered to pay $25,000 for claiming government funding as the lead maternity carer for patients, when he was not.Paul Henderson was a director and obstetrician at Kate Sheppard Midwifery...
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Doctor convicted for firing crossbow near sleeping children
Thursday, May 24, 2012
The doctor who fired a crossbow arrow, which narrowly missed sleeping children, has lost his bid for a discharge without conviction.Nigel Alistair Kim, 50, was sentenced in the Tauranga District Court today after earlier pleading...
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Cannabis and pills seized in major police drug busts
Thursday, May 24, 2012
A 61-year-old woman has been accused of growing 1.8 metre cannabis plants and an operating pill press has been seized in a series of drug raids across New Zealand.Police said 13 people were arrested, four firearms were found and...
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Fisherman brings home the bacon
Thursday, May 24, 2012
If you wanted to bag a wild pig for the freezer, 200m out in a lake is hardly the first place you'd look.But a fairly average fishing expedition turned into a successful hunting foray for Kuratau man Bob Monteith and a mate when...
