A Timaru woman who spat and kicked out at police officers trying to arrest her has been told by her sentencing judge they did not deserve to be abused in that way.
A former Wellington man now living in South Canterbury has been told by the judge he was close to going to jail for a string of dangerous driving offences.
A man who pulled on the handbrake while he was a passenger in his partner’s car, causing the vehicle to crash into a lamp post, has been sentenced to community detention.