Preetam Maid in Dunedin District Court in November.
Photo: RNZ / Tim Brown
Preetam Prakash Maid was found guilty in November of taking an imitation explosive device into a security enhanced area of Dunedin Airport on 17 March 2019.
The bomb hoax came at a time of heightened public fear and anxiety only two days after the Christchurch terror attack.
The discovery of a suspicious package on the airfield prompted the airport to close for hours on Sunday 17 March and caused significant disruption as domestic and international flights were turned back and sections of highway closed.
The Defence Force explosive ordinance team dealt with the imitation explosive device.
Sex abuse accuser says she s not making it up after defence grilling
19 Jan, 2021 06:33 PM
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The accuser defended herself in court. Photo / File
Otago Daily Times
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The counsel for a Clinton man accused of sexually abusing three young girls has suggested to one that it was all in her head.
The complainant told the jury at the Dunedin District Court trial yesterday that she was not lying. Why do I wake up having nightmares and body pains as if it s happening all over again? I ve got PTSD . that s not me making it up, she said.
South Otago man faces 38 charges relating to abuse of girls
18 Jan, 2021 05:49 PM
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A South Otago man is accused of sexually abusing three girls over a 12-year period, allegedly constructing a range of games to hide his intentions.
The defendant, aged in his 60s, is on trial before the Dunedin District Court facing 38 charges from the 1980s and 1990s, including five of rape and one of attempted rape.
The majority of the charges allege numerous indecencies committed by the defendant against the girls, one of whom was at kindergarten at the time.
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The defendant, having got her alone, allegedly asked if she wanted to play mummies and daddies .
A man who threatened to burn his partner s house down with her in it has been given a second chance by the victim
13 Jan, 2021 10:10 PM
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Shane Andrews sent the victim a barrage of text messages which became progressively more threatening. Photo / File
Shane Andrews sent the victim a barrage of text messages which became progressively more threatening. Photo / File
Otago Daily Times
A man who threatened to burn his partner s house down with her in it has been given a second chance by the victim. There was no such reprieve from the court, however.
Shane Andrew John Reeve (32) was jailed for a year his first prison sentence and Judge Michael Crosbie told the Dunedin District Court this week it was the latest in a string of offences against domestic partners.