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Crime In New Zealand - Page 29

Fatal assault over a tinny

A Timaru man has been sentenced to three years and nine months' imprisonment for fatally assaulting Timaru father Shane Braddick over a cannabis tinny in May 2012. Ref. Source 1

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Serious assaults concern police

Police are lamenting another violent weekend in Christchurch after two men suffered serious head injuries in separate assaults. Ref. Source 4

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Businessman denies sexual assault on women staff

A Hawke's Bay businessman, accused of indecent assault, repeatedly groped a staff member while she drove through Napier, a court has heard. Ref. Source 8

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Woman packin' pistol, bourbon

A young woman armed with a pistol in one hand and a bottle of bourbon in the other scared passersby as she walked along a suburban New Plymouth street in broad daylight. Ref. Source 6

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Family with sick boy preyed upon

A Lower Hutt family away from home with their cancer-stricken toddler have already been burgled twice and stung by a web scammer. Now they've been robbed again - this time as they await a potentially life-saving transplant. Ref. Source 9

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Assaulted man in critical condition

A violent assault in Manurewa has left a man in a critical condition in Auckland's Middlemore Hospital, police say. Ref. Source 5

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Arrest after hitchhikers left stabbed, with broken bones

A man has been arrested after a police chase and a five-hour armed standoff, which came after two hitchhikers were found stabbed and with broken bones. Ref. Source 1

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Man found at holiday home dead 'at least six days'

The Christchurch coroner is dealing with the death of a man found in a holiday home in a high-end Queenstown neighbourhood at the weekend - six or seven days after he was believed to have died. Ref. Source 9