Ella Scott-Fleming
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Man who beat his elderly mother to death later told hospital staff she was 'a witch' (opens the original)
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Phillip Beale's lawyer says her client admits killing his mother but is not guilty of murder. Photo / Jason Dorday Warning: This story contains details of extreme violence and fatal injuries. Phillip Beale had methamphetamine in his system and was displaying increasingly erratic behaviour when he allegedly beat his 84-year-old mother to death. Joan Beale’s battered body was found two days later, partly covered with a blanket. A blood-covered porcelain rabbit was also found in the house, along wi
Verdicts returned in NZ Navy lieutenant rape trial (opens the original)
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The man's interim name suppression continues and will be decided in the next few days. Photo / Steve Braunias WARNING: This story contains allegations of sexual offending A panel of military members has found a NZ Navy officer not guilty of three counts of rape. The Royal New Zealand Navy lieutenant was on trial at a Court Martial this week having been accused of raping a woman while they were overseas. The woman appeared via audio visual link from another country on Monday and said the lieutena
Brother of All Black Jonah Lomu sentenced for role in drug importation scheme (opens the original)
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John Lomu, brother of the late All Blacks great, has avoided prison. Photo / Jason Dorday What drugs did John Lomu, the brother of the late All Blacks legend Jonah Lomu, help smuggle into the country? And how much? That is something the court will never know, as the drugs inside the packages he took from the depot where he worked and delivered to importer Silila Vaivai were never found. Adding to the mystery was why he did what he did, especially when his lawyer, Jasper Rhodes, acknowledged at s
‘Tell everybody’: Judge’s warning after couple smuggled 2.5m cigarettes, evaded $5m in tax (opens the original)
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Husband and wife Lechuan Zhu, 36, and Yanan Tang, 33, have been sentenced for smuggling illegal cigarettes. Photo / Composite / Customs The day after Australian citizen Lechuan Zhu touched down in New Zealand, he set about building his black-market cigarette empire, importing and selling cheap, untaxed, unregulated smokes. Two years later, his wife, Chinese national Yanan Tang, sold her beauty shop in Australia and came to New Zealand to assist him in smuggling an estimated 2.5 million cigarette
Killer given discounted sentence after she suffered years of domestic abuse (opens the original)
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A woman who fatally stabbed her partner in the neck with a serrated kitchen knife, in front of his young son, has been allowed a reduced prison sentence due in part to her history as a victim of severe domestic abuse. But there was not enough evidence to suggest the stab victim, whom she had been dating for five months, was among those who had previously subjected her to sustained violence, a judge has noted. Jurors in the High Court at Auckland found Margaret Jovander Green, 33, guilty of mansl
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