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Hip-hop star Savage has revealed he lost 27 relatives in the previous month’s Samoan tsunami.

“It’s really personal for me,” he told the Samoa Observer newspaper.

Savage, real name Demetrius Savelio, hails from Lalomanu, the epicentre of the tsunami which killed 143 people in Samoa.

Savage’s relatives at Poutasi, further along the coast, lost their houses.

He told the newspaper of his connections with the Taufua family which lost 13 members and on his mother’s side which lost 14 members.

Some of the killed relatives and the beach at Lalomanu feature in Savage’s video made earlier this year, I love the Islands.

“All that put in a nutshell is hard to swallow,” said Savage. .

The Samoa Observer said Savage was in tears recalling the memories of pristine sandy beaches and breathtaking views of the south coast when he made the video. He helped organise ther recent fundraising concert in Auckland at Vector Arena, called I Love the Islands.

“It’s a video clip I take a lot of pride in.

“My single I Love the Islands was like the last raw footage of what the beach was like,” he said.

“It’s hard for us Samoans in New Zealand because we’re so far away watching the news in the comfort of our homes to see the devastation of our families and villages. To now see it on TV gives you a bit of sorrow and sadness because you know now what we were standing on back then is all gone,” he told the Observer. It was important for us to come back here. It was important for us to come back here

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A 25-year-old man has been arrested following an hour-long police pursuit of a stolen bread delivery truck through the Manawatu overnight.

The incident began in Foxton shortly before 3am, when a bread delivery man had his truck stolen by a man wielding a hammer, central police communications Inspector Paul Jermy said.

Shortly afterwards, police spotted the truck on State Highway 1, south of Foxton and attempted to stop it.

Despite the tyres deflating, the driver continued driving and the chase returned to SH1. .

The pursuit lasted an hour and five minutes – but did not exceed 110kmh as the truck was incapable of travelling any faster, Mr Jermy said.

The driver eventually stopped when the truck became more difficult to control.

A 25-year-old Palmerston North man had been arrested and faced numerous charges, including breach of bail, dangerous driving, failing to stop, driving whilst forbidden and robbery.

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The 50 people who receive the most money in social welfare payments will be audited, Social Development Minister Paula Bennett says.

More than 300 beneficiaries receive more than $1000 a week and many in the top 50 have more than eight children.

Among those to be audited are a couple, both on the unemployment benefit for 15 years, with 10 children who receive $1200 a week, the New Zealand Herald reported.

“Should we look at it, I think so.

Prime Minister John Key said he supported the audit of the top 50 beneficiaries. .

“I think the taxpayer is entitled to know, at least, it’s been properly distributed,” he told TV One’s Breakfast.

The family’s details became available following a question from Labour in Parliament, Mr Key said.

“I think it needs to be fair, so we are ensuring people are getting what they need, but not more than they are entitled to.

Ms Bennett said there were “isolated cases where it seems like a lot of money”.

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Labour MP Annette King said the 168 on the DPB getting more than $1000 a week were a small proportion of the 104,000 people on that benefit

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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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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