Taumarunui man Ian Crutchley has avoided jail after being found guilty of attempting to murder his elderly mother in a resthome. Crutchley was today sentenced by the High Court in Hamilton to six months community detention and 150 hours of community work. Community...
Sean Davison has effectively been acquitted of attempting to murder his terminally-ill 85-year-old mother in Dunedin seven years ago. The 50-year-old professor and euthanasia compaigner today pleaded guilty to an alternative lesser charge of inciting and procuring his...
Three Hamilton men have pleaded guilty to illegally hunting on Conservation Department land the night Hutt Valley teacher Rose Ives was fatally shot by a hunter who mistook her headlamp for the eyes of a deer. The three – Brad Bennet, Ashley Wolland, both 27,...
FAMILY LINKS: David Tua, right, leaves the High Court in Hamilton with Roger Laybourn, the lawyer for his wife’s cousin and alleged Mongrel Mob kingpin, Sonny Fatu who is on trial for conspiring to supply methamphetamine. The wife of champion boxer David Tua has...
A matter of self-defenceROGER LAYBOURN: Says Cameron Rodger never attempted to make excuses for his action. A son reunited with his mother, an abusive boyfriend, a death. Lawyer Roger Laybourn was faced with a highly unusual case when he defended a young man in the...
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