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Katie Harris

Reporter · NZ

Indexed articles, last 90 days
18
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Katie Harris

    Strangers pull masked teens off girls in 'distressing' bus depot attack (opens the original)

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    Two girls were allegedly attacked by a group of young masked females after a West Auckland bus trip on Monday. Photo / Michael Craig A school holiday bus trip turned violent after two Auckland schoolgirls were allegedly punched and abused by a group of masked and gloved female teens at a city bus depot. One of the teenage victims required hospital treatment and suffered a concussion, a black eye and had clumps of hair ripped from her head after allegedly being beaten as she lay on the ground. Me

  2. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Katie Harris

    Ex-Kelston Boys’ teacher guilty of child sex abuse, had priors for kid exploitation images (opens the original)

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    Murray Sakey was convicted of child sex abuse in the Auckland District Court in September 2026. An Auckland jury has found former Kelston Boys’ High School teacher and published author Murray Sakey guilty of sexually abusing two boys. During the trial, the retiree accepted he was attracted to children, had undertaken shirtless photo shoots with one of the victims and slept in a bed with both boys, but denied ever sexually abusing them. The jury of 11 men and one woman were not convinced. Sakey,

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Katie Harris

    Firm employing lawyer who assaulted ex will 'reconsider' job if he's named (opens the original)

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    An Auckland lawyer has admitted in court to assaulting his ex-partner. An Auckland lawyer who assaulted his ex-girlfriend has won his fight for interim name suppression, claiming he could lose his job if he’s identified. The man was a Public Defence Service employee at an Auckland court when the offending occurred in 2025. The lawyer pleaded guilty to assaulting a person in a family relationship, and did not seek name suppression, at a hearing in Wellington in July. However, when the Herald cont

  4. Article · Sep 6, 2026 · Katie Harris

    'Any child is attractive': Accused ex-teacher says kids have gorgeous faces (opens the original)

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    A former Auckland teacher accused of child sex crimes told an investigating officer he found children attractive. “Police have an idea [that] you can’t find the look of a child attractive … It seems the police have no idea what beauty is.” The attraction was not sexual, he said in a recorded police interview. “Children are attractive. Any child is attractive. The man, who has interim name suppression, is facing historic abuse charges in relation to two boys, including several counts of indecency

  5. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Katie Harris

    'Never thought this day would come': Man testifies against his alleged child sex abuser (opens the original)

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    An Auckland man who says he was sexually abused as a child is finally having his day in court, decades after he says he first spoke out about the alleged offending. “I’ve spent my whole life thinking he’s going to get away with this,” he testified yesterday afternoon. That complainant, now in his 40s, said he first alerted his family to the alleged sexual assaults decades ago, and initially reported it to police several years later in 2002. It wasn’t until after his second complaint in 2024 that

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