Ken Fergusson found the bottle at Ninety Mile Beach.
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Contact details inside have connected the Awanui community with a Greek seafarer who has never been to New Zealand.
At first fisherman Ken Fergusson thought the wine bottle was just another piece of litter when he found it last week. Somebody would be running over it and breaking it, [I thought it would] cause a problem for people s feet. So I stopped and picked it up and threw it on the back of my truck, got home, went to throw it in the rubbish and I noticed there was a card in it.
Ninety Mile Beach meth megabust: Jailed woman says drugs already imported by time she got involved
12 May, 2021 03:12 AM
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Focus: Operation Frontia. Massive amount of meth caught on the coast. Video / Mike Scott
The gigantic Ninety Mile Beach meth stash was already imported by the time Selaima Fakaosilea got involved.
That s what Fakaosilea s lawyer Greg Bradford told the Court of Appeal today, as his client appealed against her conviction and her 12-and-a-half year jail sentence.
Fakaosilea, a close relative of the late All Black winger Jonah Lomu, denied importing methamphetamine and participating in an organised criminal group.
Selaima Fakaosilea was jailed for drug importation after a High Court trial. Photo / Mike Scott
The gigantic Ninety Mile Beach meth stash was already imported by the time Selaima Fakaosilea got involved.
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