:quality(70)/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/tvnz/7VXOVZYWZRGHZDOWLHAYGAVZ3Y.jpg "Dying Australian pedophile priest admits abusing 72nd victim")
Pedophile Catholic priest Gerald Ridsdale has made a deathbed confession to sexually abusing his 72nd victim. The 89-year-old has been in prison since 1994 and is currently serving a maximum 39-year sentence for abusing dozens of child victims when he worked as a priest at multiple schools and churches across Victoria. In October last year, … [Read more…]
:quality(70):focal(-5x-5:5x5)/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/tvnz/DTBKSA36PJDQ5BDCNJDODDL4XQ.png "Mongrel Mob member reacts to National’s latest gang policy")
A senior Mongrel Mob member says National’s latest gang policy fails to address the root causes of membership and could make the problem worse. Harry Tam joined Breakfast this morning to give his reaction to the policy, which would see a person’s gang membership become a specific aggravating factor during criminal sentencing. It comes after … [Read more…]
:quality(70):focal(-5x-5:5x5)/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/tvnz/J4EQN5AV4VCSFAPLN5ER5RSFPI.png "Councillor with Mongrel Mob past praises police in Ōpōtiki")
Amid tensions around the gang presence in Ōpōtiki this week, a neighbouring District Councillor is praising how police handled the situation. Sections of Ōpōtiki were shut down for the tangi of Steven Taiatini, the president of the Mongrel Mob Barbarians club. That included closures of schools and roads, as hundreds of patched gang members arrived … [Read more…]
:quality(70)/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/tvnz/5CBQQJMOLRB5DPPPADMZIZJGXM.jpg "Melbourne woman wanted to leave partner before 2007 murder")
In the days leading up to Joanne Howell’s death, she told friends she wanted Paul Ross Charlton out of her home and out of her life. The couple had been arguing for months, with Howell giving Charlton four weeks to leave her Hughesdale unit in Melbourne’s southeast. Prosecutors allege he didn’t want to leave, instead … [Read more…]
:quality(70):focal(374x173:384x183)/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/tvnz/JRKSGHYMUJDZ3DPP7BVCWZ36JE.jpg "Judge labels rape of Melbourne intruder ‘cruel and barbaric’")
The rape of a man who broke into a Melbourne home has been described by a judge as cruel and barbaric. The victim, Shane Cox, had broken into a unit in Melton, in Melbourne’s west, in March 2021 armed with a knife and wearing a mask. He had asked for money and drugs and was … [Read more…]
:quality(70)/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/tvnz/QQGD27JBANHQZMKWWQHMILG5PE.jpg "Man arrested after motorway chase")
A man has been arrested after leading police on an 80-minute chase across Auckland following an alleged home invasion in Devonport overnight. The pursuit ended after the man’s car crashed outside Auckland City Hospital around 8am this morning, police said in a statement: “Charges are being considered.” One resident inside the Stanley Point home suffered … [Read more…]
:quality(70)/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/tvnz/WWGSE3EH2JETNBGFDJ4KNRYN3Y.jpg "NSW police seek CCTV of Sydney inferno’s beginnings")
Investigators examining the cause of a huge blaze that engulfed two multi-storey buildings in Sydney’s CBD are appealing for video footage of the area in the lead-up to the fire. Police have launched Strike Force Strontium to investigate the circumstances surrounding Thursday’s fire, one of the largest seen in central Sydney for about a decade. … [Read more…]