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Waimate man sentenced to supervision for dangerous driving

John Bisset/Stuff Matthew Dean Blain, 28, has been sentenced to nine months supervision and disqualified from driving for six months for driving in a dangerous manner and driving while licence suspended. A Waimate motorist had a child in his car when he used a string of “highly irresponsible” manoeuvres to pass vehicles over more than an hour. Matthew Dean Blain, 28, was sentenced to nine months supervision and disqualified from driving for six months when he appeared before Judge Joanna Maze in the Timaru District Court on Tuesday. He had pleaded guilty to driving in a dangerous manner and driving while his licence was suspended.

Twizel man jailed after threatening police during seven-hour stand-off

JOHN BISSET/Stuff Clinton Andrew Willetts, 49, has been sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment for failing to comply with a protection order and threatening to kill or do grievous bodily harm. A Twizel man has been jailed for brandishing an air rifle and threatening to shoot a police officer, sparking a seven-hour stand-off with the Armed Offenders Squad. Fifteen police officers, including the Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) flown in from Christchurch, and two ambulance staff responded to reports that Clinton Andrew Willetts was armed and threatening to harm himself, his former employer, and a police officer in October. Willetts, 49, was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment when he appeared before Judge Joanna Maze in the Timaru District Court on Monday.

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