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Hendrick Lim has compiled a CCTV dossier of complaints against his neighbouring liquor store, including rogue fireworks, a fight, car crashes and alleged after-hours sales.
Street brawls, rogue fireworks, drunken car crashes and alleged after-hour alcohol sales: Hendrick Lim watches an unusual variety of video clips on his iPhone. Every night, just after 11pm, Lim checks an app on his phone. It shows a live stream of the CCTV cameras encircling his family’s petrol station - and also gives him a perfect view of the neighbouring liquor store. He’s gathering evidence of what he alleges are repeated illicit after-hours alcohol sales. Behind Lim’s application to revoke the liquor licence of his neighbour, Gurpreet ‘Guru’ Kandola, is a bitter feud between two families which has split the business community of the south Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe.