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The Office of the Auditor-General says there are no grounds for an inquiry into Finance Minister Bill English’s housing arrangements. .
The Auditor-General’s conclusions were predictable, Mr English says.
“Importantly, the Auditor-General concludes that the current parliamentary system is designed to establish whether an MP maintains a current residence outside Wellington, rather than where an MP lives in an everyday sense.
“I welcome the Auditor-General’s confirmation that I correctly completed my declarations and provided other information as required to claim Wellington accommodation costs.
The report called for a “simple and sensible” system for providing MPs and Ministers with support for the costs of their accommodation while in Wellington.
Mr English came under fire after it was disclosed he received more than $900 a week in allowances while living in his family home in Karori, twice what he was able to claim for living in the same house as an Opposition MP.
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A man tried to snatch a 10-year-old boy just half a kilometre away from where Aisling Symes vanished two days later, can reveal.
The boy’s story has emerged as police announce the investigation into Aisling’s disappearance is to be further boosted by additional police staff. He offered to buy him sweets as he shopped in the Discount Food Mart, on Rathgar Rd, Henderson.
The schoolboy was approached by a man in his 30s two days before two-year-old Aisling’s disappearance, has learned. It made me feel weird,” the boy said.
“I asked the shop person the price of the candy and, when she said $4, the man asked if he could pay for me and said I could go along with him.
The boy’s mum, who is desperately concerned for Aisling, said: “It could have been anyone’s kid and even ours.
He ran screaming from the store, which is close to where two-year-old Aisling disappeared from her late grandparents home in Longburn Rd last Monday.
“From what has happened in the last week in this area it is going to make me a lot more careful. I always tell my son not to go off on his own but he doesn’t listen. Who knows if the guy was joking but my son did the right thing.
“I didn’t like hearing about what happened in the shop with my son.
Police spokesperson Noreen Hegarty downplayed the incident.”
Police questioned the boy on Thursday and again last night for several hours.
She said police were not seeking the man. She said police believed the man hadn’t made any attempt to “abduct” or “lure” the boy away from his family.
The boy, who has agreed not to identity, was in the superette around 12. Asked why police then interviewed the boy’s parents, Hegarty said they had to “take everything that comes to this investigation seriously”.
“I was by the candy and the guy came up to me and gave me a really strange look and started talking to me,” the boy said.30pm last Saturday while his mum and aunt were in Creative Cutz hairdressers nearby.
“That made me worried,” said the schoolboy.
He was concerned that the stranger, who described as about 33, Maori or Pacific Islander, wanted to buy him candy.
“I was scared, pretty scared.
“Suddenly I ran out of the store screaming for my mum as I thought he wanted to kidnap me.”
The brave lad knew he had to run away from stranger danger.”
The brave lad knew he had to run away from stranger danger. “I’ve been told that if someone wants to give you something or take you anywhere you just say `no’ and get away,” he said. .
Harrison Williams, the owner of Creative Cutz hairdressing, has also been spoken to by police.
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It may be no surprise to new fathers to know that they survive on an average 42 minutes’ less sleep a night than other men.
This gem is among a raft of facts released today by Statistics New Zealand to mark Father’s Day on Sunday.
Other ”father figures” include:
* In 2008, a new baby was a Father Day’s present for 143 men.
* Today’s newborn babies have fathers who are, on average, four years older than their own fathers were when they were born.
* The average age of fathers of new babies is 33 years, but one in 100 babies has a father aged 50 years or over. This is because men generally start parenting later in life and women have a longer life span. .
The first Father’s Day is thought to have originated in Babylon over 4000 years ago.
A number of northern hemisphere countries celebrate Father’s Day in June.
The modern Father’s Day celebration had its origins in the US at the turn of the 20th century.
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A businessman has pleaded guilty to using his cellphone to take hundreds of images with views up women’s skirts.
Judge Geoff Rea, in Hastings District Court yesterday, said the 48-year-old, from Hastings, had filmed “dozens, if not hundreds” of women. The man, a father-of-three, pleaded guilty to two charges of making the intimate recordings of unsuspecting victims.
The man, in court with his wife, was caught after using his cellphone to take a photo of a woman in The Warehouse in Hastings on February 13. He has been granted interim name suppression. The court was told the man bent over behind her, held his phone under her mini skirt and took a photo. The woman was bending over to look at cushions. .
An analysis of the man’s computer hard-drive, seized from his home, revealed he had taken hundreds of video and still images up women’s skirts. He was chased by an off-duty police officer who noticed him frantically pushing buttons on the cellphone.
He had only one previous conviction, 25 years ago. His lawyer, Bill Calver, told the court his client had a fetish for women’s underwear. Police opposed name suppression.
Mr Calver said the man was depressed and he sought name suppression on the strength of a psychiatrist’s report that said publication of his name may heighten his suicide risk.
Judge Rea said: “The overwhelming public interest and concern in something like this would normally mean your name would be published almost as of right.
Judge Rea said: “The overwhelming public interest and concern in something like this would normally mean your name would be published almost as of right.
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The man was sentenced to 400 hours’ community work
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A 75-year-old woman was the subject of a more than 160km police pursuit with a twist on Tuesday.
The Taiwanese woman, who was in Te Anau with a group of tourists, left a gift shop wearing a jacket allegedly without paying for it before boarding her tour bus.
Constable James Ure, of Te Anau, said the woman had been in Kowhai Gifts & Souvenirs in the town centre and allegedly walked out of the shop wearing the polar-fleece jacket about 3pm.
Mr Ure gave chase, trying to get the Queenstown-bound driver of the bus to pull over to no avail.
Police were called, but the woman had already left on her bus, he said.
Meanwhile, inquiries made by the Te Anau police station receptionist led to her tracking down a phone number for the driver, whom she rang and managed to get him to pull over at Jacks Point 17km from Queenstown, Mr Ure said. .
Language barriers proved to be a problem when it came to interviewing the woman, he said, but the woman said she believed her husband had paid for the jacket.
The woman was likely to be referred for police diversion, he said.
Her alleged offending, subsequent arrest and questioning in Te Anau had interrupted her tour and late yesterday her bus was believed to be in the Mackenzie Basin, Mr Ure said.
People of all ages were prone to attempt to steal goods, he said.
Kowhai Gifts & Souvenirs owner Yasu Omori, of Te Anau, said shoplifting by tourists was quite common at the shop, but it did have good systems in place to catch light-fingered customers.
“She just looked like a very nice American woman.
A 63-year-old American woman was caught ripping the store off late last year.”
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New Zealand law allows significant human rights failings and breaches of international treaties, a report by civil rights lawyers to the United Nations says.
The shadow report written by former Council for Civil Liberties chairman Tony Ellis and a team of lawyers was submitted to the United Nations last week.
The report called for:
The elimination of extended supervision orders (ESO);
The Government to repeal the preventive detention laws;
The Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims Act 2005 to be repealed.
It said New Zealand could do better in many areas of human rights law and that there were several deficiencies in respect of New Zealand’s international human rights obligations.
Two weeks ago, the Government sparked by possible lawsuits from high-risk sex offenders on ESOs rushed through a law change to patch a loophole in parole laws.
The report said ESOs, which monitor and restrict the movements of sex offenders, were inconsistent with the Bill of Rights due to issues of double jeopardy and unreasonable search and seizure.
“These prisoners have already served their prison sentence, they have done their time and in some cases are then retrospectively sentenced again,” Ellis said.
The law was passed despite a report from the attorney-general that warned the law change could not be justified under the Bill of Rights.
It also condemned the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims Act, which was passed to restrict prisoners gaining compensation for ill-treatment while behind bars unless the money was used as redress for victims.
The report also took issue with the sentence of preventive detention, saying it amounted to arbitrary detention.
“This legislation is a disgrace in any democratic society and plainly a breach of the covenant and numerous other international instruments.
The law denied people who had been ill-treated a remedy, adequate or otherwise, the report said.
The report also called for:
The Parole Board to be independent and impartial;
An independent prisons’ inspectorate be set up;
The Bill of Rights to be given supreme law status, and section 4 of the act (which allows the Government to pass laws contrary to the Bill of Rights) to be repealed;
Improving the care of mentally ill prisoners and addressing the over-representation of Maori in prisons.”
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Ellis said while treating prisoners decently may not be popular, to do so was the mark of a civilised society.
The most recent report, delivered in December 2007, is due for consideration by the UN in Geneva in July.
New Zealand is a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and as such supplies the United Nations Human Rights Committee with a periodic report on the country’s human rights status.
Shadow reports are commonly filed by civil rights organisations from other countries, but it has been rarely done by New Zealand groups.
It reports considerable advances in human rights, including key judgments by the Supreme Court, the passing of the Civil Unions act, the creation of an action plan for human rights and the creation of the Families Commission.
Justice Minister Simon Power said New Zealand was presenting its report under the UN’s convention against torture this month, and then the ICCPR report in July.
Ellis said that was partly due to funding his report was prepared pro bono and partly due to ignorance that such reports could be written.
Power noted the Human Rights Commission’s 2004 review found New Zealand met international human rights standards in many respects and often surpassed them.
Both included many positive developments in the protection of human rights in New Zealand, he said, including the establishment of the Supreme Court, the repeal of seditious offences, and reviews of laws governing policing and corrections.
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A Timaru teenager held up a dairy to raise the money he needed to get out of the Mongrel Mob.
Rhys Nasologa Senelale, 17, disguised himself and held up the elderly owner of Timaru’s Hill Top Dairy in July last year.
The two offences had occurred only months apart.
Senelale was appearing for sentence on a charge of aggravated robbery and a charge of injuring with intent when he appeared before Judge Brian Callaghan in the Timaru District Court yesterday.
Counsel Teresa Lawrence said Senelale had committed the robbery as he was in debt to the gang.
Senelale was 16 when he took a large knife into the dairy shortly after dark one winter’s night, holding up the owner, and taking $300 cash. He has since left.
He was attempting to get out of the Mongrel Mob and needed the cash to pay the gang so he could leave. Instead, he needed a structured, tailored sentence which would help Senelale and the community.
Miss Lawrence told the court prison was not a good option for the youth as he would mix with those he should be avoiding. .
Senelale was attending the Opihi Services Academy and the academy’s director considered he had real leadership potential, she told the court.
The injuring charge arose out of an incident in Temuka last October in which Senelale had punched the ex-boyfriend of an associate, breaking the youth’s jaw.
Miss Lawrence agreed it would have been easier for the court to consider a community-based sentence if there had been only one charge.
The victim spent three nights in hospital, had to have his jaw wired, and was forced to feed through a straw for a month.
When the victim fell to the ground Senelale kicked him about the body a couple of times.
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The assault had involved serious violence, with the king-hit punch leaving the youth with a broken jaw and lying on the ground unconscious.
Craig O’Connor, for the Crown, told the court the planning and premeditation involved in the burglary were aggravating factors, as was the fact Senelale had set up a possible alibi of having rugby practice at a close toby park.
He halved that after taking into account the offender’s age and early guilty pleas.
Judge Callaghan considered the starting point for the offending was a four-year prison term for the aggravated robbery and 2 1/2 years for the assault. There was the possibility he could become a successful member of society.
There had been quite a turnaround in Senelale’s approach to life, and the judge noted he did not appear to be an habitual offender. He said home detention was not an easy sentence to comply with.
The judge was willing to reduce the sentence further to enable Senelale to be sentenced to home detention.
He was ordered to pay $300 reparation to the dairy owner and $1000 reparation for emotional harm to the assault victim.
He was ordered to pay $300 reparation to the dairy owner and $1000 reparation for emotional harm to the assault victim.
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Veitch set to sue radio star
By JOHN MATHESON – Sunday, 22 February 2009
Veitch basks in limelight back on screen
Face-off may be avoided in Veitch trial
Controversialbroadcaster Willie Jackson is refusing to make a personal apology to Tony Veitch over allegedly defamatory comments he made about the TV star last week.
And despite the threat of legal action against him and employers Radio Live, Jackson last night refused to back down from his statement Veitch should never have been allowed to appear on a TV sports show last week.
Veitch is accused of six counts of assault on a female and one of injuring former girlfriend Kristin Dunne-Powell with reckless disregard.
On Wednesday he made his first television appearance since July last year when he was a guest on Sky's Deaker on Sport.
The alleged incidents, which cost him his high-profile TV and radio jobs, took place between March 2002 and January 2006.
Jackson made a number of comments relating to the charges Veitch faces and then said: "I don't want to see the mongrel on television.
Jackson afternoon host on Radio Live with former political bad-boy John Tamihere potentially derailed Veitch's comeback. I don't want to see the mongrel get any work. Stuff him.
"I just want to destroy his career right now."
understands Veitch has instructed lawyers to take action against Jackson and Radio Live. It's my mission to destroy him.
"I apologised on air within half an hour of saying what I said but if he wants to carry on (with legal action) it's not my problem," Jackson said.
Jackson last night said while some of what he said was "silly" he wouldn't back down from his stand that Veitch shouldn't be back on TV until his court case is over.
"What's the problem? I made a comment, I apologised.
"What's the problem? I made a comment, I apologised.
"But I stand by what I said about him not being on Sky TV. I said a couple of silly things about destroying him and I shouldn't have said that. But he should have to go through the (court) process first.
"Not that I don't believe in redemption.
"Tony was absolutely devastated," a close friend said."
was told Veitch was listening to Radio Live when Jackson made his comments. Willie also said that Tony admitted to all of this, which again, is not true.
"People were taking Willie's comment on board as fact. And angry enough to want to take legal action. .
understands once Veitch deals with the assault charges his legal team will pursue Jackson and other media outlets.
understands once Veitch deals with the assault charges his legal team will pursue Jackson and other media outlets.
"Matters in relation to media organisations who have proffered these false statements, including the ones that he booted her in the head, threw her down the stairs and left her unconscious for six hours will be looked at later," said Veitch's PR manager Glenda Hughes.
"We are aware that Willie apologised for threatening to destroy Tony but never once did he retract or apologise for the many false and wildly exaggerated statements he made."
Media experts said the comments could amount to defamation if Radio Live was unable to prove what Jackson said was true.
Radio Live boss Mitch Harris said he wasn't concerned by Veitch's threat of legal action and said he was confident Jackson didn't break the law.
"If they want to go and sue us then they can go ahead," he said.
Hughes said there there was "major concern" over how comments like Jackson's could affect Veitch's right to a fair trial.
"Readers and listeners, who are potential jurors, could be influenced by these wildly exaggerated and totally false statements," she said.
Meanwhile those close to Veitch contine to monitor him closely.
Last month emergency services discovered the former star in a "distressed state" when he was holidaying at the popular Coromandel beach resort of Pauanui.
Veitch had been with wife Zoe Halford before he went missing on the night of January 2 and was rushed to Thames Hospital following a tablet overdose.
In September he was airlifted to hospital following an earlier suicide bid at Mangawhai, north of Auckland.
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Unconscious skydiver lands on his face
By ALICE COWDREY Monday, 16 February 2009
A Swedish man who became unconscious during a skydive in Motueka is in a serious but stable condition at Hutt Hospital with serious facial injuries.
The 26-year-old was attempting his first solo skydive on Sunday morning as part of his training with Skydive Abel Tasman in Motueka.
St John Ambulance team manager Jon Leach said the man became unconscious during the descent and landed on his face.
Skydive Abel Tasman owner and chief safety officer Stuart Bean said the man's free-fall went well and, after opening his parachute, he had initially responded to radio communication which was part of his training. .
He was found conscious on the side of a hill in some bush south of the Motueka Airport. Subsequent contact was unsuccessful and the man landed about one kilometre from where he was supposed to.
Mr Bean said the business had investigated the incident on Sunday, going over the man's paperwork, talking through what happened and discussing if there was anything they could have done differently. Mr Bean, who has been an instructor since 1985, said he had never seen anything like it.
He said the man was young and fit and healthy and as far as he could see, there was no reason to have had any concerns for his safety.
Mr Leach said it was not common for St John to attend skydiving accidents as safety was always well controlled in the industry.
He said the incident would be reported to the New Zealand Parachute Industry Association."
. "You get the odd smashed ankle, so this was quite out of the ordinary