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A tearful 12-year-old girl’s interview about a sexual assault arranged by her father for $40 was all lies to get him in trouble, she told a court today.
The girl, who has name suppression, was the first of five children to give evidence at the High Court at Auckland via CCTV from an adjacent room.
She earlier fled from the room while her police interview was being played to the court, and the jury retired until she was found. He then forced her to go to the men, who placed her up against a wall in a Farmer’s car park and held her there.
During her police interview in September 2007, the girl said she saw her father talking to three men at McDonald’s in Manukau. .
She described one man who masturbated against her, while another man held her down and kissed her neck.
She said her father eventually got out of his car and told them to stop.
“He told me to get in the car and put my head down and stop crying. One of them said “she was good”, the girl said. My dad was really drunk,” she said. He told me not to tell anyone about what happened.
“I don’t want to be with him.
He was paid $40 then spent the cash on cannabis in Otahuhu after his daughter’s ordeal was over. I’m not safe with him,” she said. I’m not safe with him,” she said.
She said she did not know.
Mr Borich asked the girl if she made up the story because she said during the police interview that she wanted her father to go to jail. They have eight children.
Her 37-year-old father and 33-year-old mother, who both have name suppression, are charged with three counts of assault on a child, eight charges of cruelty to a child and one charge of intentional damage to a Housing New Zealand home in Manurewa. He is also charged with two counts of assault on his children.
The man is also charged with sexual conduct with his then 12-year-old daughter and injuring her with intent by inflicting repeated blows with a broom.
The cruelty charges include wilfully ill-treating the eight children in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering, physical and mental abuse, generating a climate of fear, providing unsuitable housing, causing and maintaining poor hygiene and allowing them to go hungry. All charges related to events between January 2005 and September 2007.
During her interview in September 2007, the girl spoke about the drinking and drug habits of her mother and father.
The man pleaded guilty to one assault charge, while all other charges are denied. Afterwards, he gets ‘mental as’ and beats us up for no reason. Afterwards, he gets ‘mental as’ and beats us up for no reason. Sometimes he tells me to go up between the ceiling and the roof. I’ve been up there for two days nearly every week this year. I just have to lie down and I’m not allowed to make any noise. I get water but no food. I do a toilet up there too,” she said.
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A medical student who overcame a learning disability and was on his way to achieving his childhood goal of becoming a doctor has died after contracting meningitis.
Zac Gravatt, 22, died in Auckland City Hospital on Wednesday night, after being suddenly struck down by the disease.
The British-born trainee doctor had turned 22 less than a week earlier.
On the day he died, he rang his father, Lance Gravatt, to say he was so sick couldn’t sit up.
He had overcome dyslexia to get into medical school and was just two years away from becoming a doctor. . “I said to take fluid and Panadol and see a doctor,” a devastated Mr Gravatt told the New Zealand Herald.
Lance Gravatt said his son would be remembered as a “full-on” person with a love of parties, who had put in all the extra work to overcome his learning difficulties.
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Zac Gravatt’s funeral is due to be held in Auckland on Tuesday
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Two teenagers have pleaded guilty to bashing to death a New Zealand man at a Sydney sporting oval.
The offenders, who were 16 at the time of the man’s death in 2007, were originally charged with murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter in the NSW Supreme Court.
A court had previously been told Christopher Leichester, 20, was on his way to a party in Woolooware in Sydney’s south on November 24, 2007.
According to a police statement of facts, Mr Leichester suffered a severed artery between his brain and central nervous system.
As the New Zealander crossed an oval he was set upon by a group of teenage boys who punched him to the ground and kicked him several times in the head.
Court documents revealed the attack appeared to have occurred because the teenagers mistakenly believed Mr Leichester had abused them a short time earlier. .
But a witness told police it was two other men who chased and hurled abuse at the teenagers’ car.
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Both youths remain in custody
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The death of a forestry worker in the Waikato tonight is the second workplace death in the area in 24 hours, police say.
Te Kuiti sub-area manager Senior Sergeant Rob Van Kalken said police and ambulance staff were making their way to a remote location in the Rangitoto Ranges, east of Te Kuiti, after reports of a forestry worker being killed about 5pm.Mr Van Kalken said police hoped once preliminary investigations were completed the body could be taken back to Te Kuiti and identified.There was little radio and cellphone coverage in the area and police were attempting to establish what had happened.A contractor working on a sewage line replacement was killed about 24 hours earlier after the trench he was working in collapsed.The dead worker’s name would not be released until next-of-kin had been notified. .Piopio father of three Mark Williams, 43, was digging a trench with colleagues on Williams Street, Te Kuiti, when the trench suddenly collapsed, burying him chest-deep in dirt about 5pm.Mr Van Kalken urged workers in the area to ensure their safety while working.Department of Labour inspectors were at the trench site today carrying out an investigation.”Obviously these incidents are unrelated, however we don’t want to be facing any similar tragedies and we’re asking people to ensure safety is their number one priority.”
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A morbidly obese fraudster who argues he needs specialised medical treatment that can’t be provided in prison has lost his bid to be freed while he awaits further court action.
Max Heslehurst, who has been reported as weighing close toly 200kg, was earlier this year found guilty on 41 counts of fraud and sentenced to three years and nine months in prison a term partly reduced as a result of his obesity-related health problems.
But Heslehurst widely known as Mad Max or Fat Max has appealed the convictions, saying a note outlining one or more of his previous convictions was mistakenly handed to the jury. . He applied for permission to await the appeal’s outcome at home.
It was reported at the time of his sentencing in May that his obesity meant other prisoners had to help with his personal hygiene when he used the toilet.
Heslehurst had been found guilty by a South Auckland jury of fleecing at least 30 victims across the North Island of $344,000.
Meyrick told the Sunday Star-Times he would not appeal Heslehurst’s failed bail application to the Supreme Court, but his client’s condition meant he was “degraded” in the prison setting.
Heslehurst reportedly duped his victims including a solo mother, a dentist, a racedog trainer and a group of Hamilton bankers by offering to sell them cars or televisions for bargain prices. He did not believe the Corrections Department was equipped to care for prisoners like Heslehurst who effectively had a disability. But there were no televisions or cars.
He told one of his victims he could get seven wide-screen televisions cheaply because they had belonged to failed finance company Bridgecorp and were to be auctioned the next day. A treatment plan was in place which “covers all aspects of his healthcare needs and he has an appointment scheduled with a cardiovascular specialist at Auckland Hospital shortly”.
In opposing bail, counsel for the Crown said health workers were monitoring Heslehurst’s condition daily. There was also an emergency care plan to transport him to hospital if necessary. There was also an emergency care plan to transport him to hospital if necessary.
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She added that evidence from Corrections Department health bosses suggested Heslehurst’s health needs were not enough to “tip the scales” in favour of granting bail
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Dirty dairy farms fail to comply
– Thursday, 27 November 2008
One in five Canterbury dairy farms fails to meet environmental standards for effluent disposal, a new report says.
Environment Canterbury's (ECan) annual dairy-shed effluent report found more farms fully complied with environmental standards from 39.8% in 2007-08. .7% last year). It also recorded an increase in the number with significant or major non-compliance problems (20%, up from 17.
One farmer has been fined $8500 for environmental breaches and another court case is pending.
Major problems include ponding of effluent, waste being dumped into waterways or nitrogen overload.
The report, released yesterday, said there had been little change in compliance rates for the past five years.
About a third of the 696 farms monitored had minor non-compliance problems. More than 50% of properties that breached standards had mended their ways on reinspection.
It said farmers learnt from their mistakes.
ECan regulations director Kim Drummond said the council had decided to involve farmers and environmental groups in trying to solve the problem.
However, more infringement and abatement notices had been issued, leaving ECan to ponder why offending rates had remained consistent. That's the ultimate gain here," he said.
"We all want dairy farms to be 100% compliant with the rules, and indeed encourage them to move beyond compliance and step up to best practice.
"I think it might go a little deeper than saying there is a good initiative there that has yet to bear fruit," he said.
Initial results from the 2008-09 survey showed similar rates of consent breaches. One thing on its own is not enough here. "I think the challenge is to unite all these initiatives so they are all pushing in the same direction, and getting a little bit more of the jigsaw puzzle to come together on this.
Dairy company Fonterra discussed the problem with ECan last year and sent staff to visit the worst polluters to try to help clean up their farms."
The rapid growth in conversions of farms to dairying and a high staff turnover were identified in the report as two possible factors for pollution rates remaining constant.
Often the problem could be as simple as a spray machine travelling too slowly and resulting in waste to pool in one place rather than covering a whole paddock.
Fonterra sustainable production general manager John Hutchings said effluent was normally irrigated on to paddocks as fertiliser.
"We have a team of sustainable dairy specialists throughout New Zealand and we have just appointed another one in Canterbury as part of our commitment to get this right," Hutchings said.
"We have a team of sustainable dairy specialists throughout New Zealand and we have just appointed another one in Canterbury as part of our commitment to get this right," Hutchings said.
Farmers' group Dairy New Zealand said the report's finding of no real progress in reducing levels of non-compliance was a big concern.
Chief executive Tim Mackle said the industry was working hard with farmers to help improve infrastructure and management techniques.
"There are some encouraging trends emerging, including the reduction in the incidence of major effluent ponding, which shows farm staff are aware of the need to check this," he said.
"Plus, the report notes that when compared nationally, Canterbury still has a low level of direct discharge to surface water occurring."
Fish and Game Nelson-Marlborough manager Neil Deans said 7.4% of all dairy farms that significantly failed to meet their obligations had not improved a year later.
Compliance with consents was a fundamental requirement to conduct any business, and the report highlighted shortcomings in current processes, he said.
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Time in cells the only takings for bungling burglars
By LYN HUMPHREYS – Monday, 27 October 2008
Six bungling burglars are cooling their heels in New Plymouth police cells after three failed efforts within five hours at the weekend.
In two of the three burglaries, police say it was quick action by astute members of the public that stopped the offenders getting away.
Two of the six arrested were found to be on bail for other offences at the time.
During the arrest, police discovered one of the burglars, aged 18, was on electronic bail awaiting a court appearance on earlier charges, Acting Sergeant Royston Betteridge said.
In the first burglary, at 8pm on Saturday, police were contacted when two men were spotted taking a TV and other property out of a Frankleigh Park house and into the house next door."
And at 9. .40pm on Saturday, the Westown Food Market on the corner of Tukapa and David streets, was targeted in a smash and grab.
Thanks to information from the public, a police dog tracked them to a lower Westown house. The offenders threw a rock through the front door and helped themselves to cigarettes.
"If members of the public hadn't pointed us in the right direction they might not have been apprehended. Three youths aged between 14 and 17 were nabbed.
When searched, police discovered the pair had thousands of dollars of camera gear in their backpack, stolen 20 minutes before from a car."
In the third incident, two men, aged 18 and 19, were stopped by police in Devon St for breaching the liquor ban.
The pair had helped themselves to a camera, lenses and a navigational device.
The pair had helped themselves to a camera, lenses and a navigational device.
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Shortly after, police woke up the owner of the gear and returned it to him before he was even aware it had been filched