A carport in a neighbouring property was also damaged. “Additional resources were brought in to control the fire which caused extensive damage to the house,’ he said. “It was swiftly contained by the crews.” Crowe said smoke alarms inside the house were set off. “It showed that working smoke alarms are essential to warn people inside the house, as well as alert, in this case, neighbours of the fire,” he said. New Plymouth police and FENZ investigators were treating the fire as suspicious. The house was being lived in at the time, but no-one was in the house when the fire started, Detective Sergeant Byron Reid, he said.
The trial of three Taranaki police officers charged with manslaughter began on Monday, May 17, 2021.
In the final hours of Allen Ball’s life, as he lay unresponsive in a Taranaki police cell, one of the officers later charged with his manslaughter admitted they may get “crucified” for not constantly monitoring the intoxicated 55-year-old. “We might get, might get a little bit crucified for the fact that I haven’t put him on constant monitoring, umm, because of the level of consciousness of level of, umm, drink I guess, but, umm, he’s making kind of all the right noises,” the officer told a civilian at the Hāwera Police Station.
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