A Dogs Trust survey of more than 6000 people in May has found changes in dog behaviour during the Covid-19 lockdown.
A dog that bit a farmworker several times while defending its owner during a fight on a West Coast dairy farm has escaped a death sentence. Matene Hapeta’s pitbull cross, Biggy, will not be put down because Judge David Saunders said it had attacked during “exceptional circumstances”. Hapeta, 34, was convicted in the Greymouth District Court in December of owning a dog that caused serious injury to his former co-worker, Kodi Purcell.
Supplied
Biggy the pitbull cross was saved from being put down after a judge decided he attacked a farmworker in “exceptional circumstances”. His owner, Matene Hapeta, has been convicted of owning a dog which caused injury.
Warrington Magistrates Court A WOMAN who tried to drive away after crashing into a parked car in Bewsey has been handed a suspended sentence. Desiree Bennett, 36, appeared in Warrington Magistrates Court on Thursday, and was also charged with failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis and driving without third-party insurance. Alison Warburton, prosecuting, told the court that Bennett, of Fry Street in St Helens, hit a parked car in Deal Close on December 20. She tried to drive away down Lovely Lane but was blocked by bollards. Ms Warburton said she then got out of the car and walked away.
Christchurch man who took illicit drugs, bashed elderly woman escapes conviction after automatism defence accepted
2 Feb, 2021 12:38 AM
8 minutes to read
Maia Tirikatene outside court with her supporters after the man who attacked her was discharged without conviction on Tuesday. Photo / George Heard.
Maia Tirikatene outside court with her supporters after the man who attacked her was discharged without conviction on Tuesday. Photo / George Heard.
Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask
A Christchurch man who brutally beat an elderly service station worker after taking illicit drugs has been granted a discharge without conviction and permanent name suppression after the court accepted his defence of automatism.
Judge strips jailed Scottish drugs baron of (pounds) 700,000 of assets A SCOTTISH drugs baron, currently serving a 15-year jail sentence and married to the world s greatest female triple jump champion, yesterday was stripped of (pounds) 700,000 in assets from his luxury homes and top-of-the-range sports cars. Andrew Dodds, 37, from Balfron, Stirlingshire, was warned that if he tries in any way to prevent the National Crime Squad from recovering this money he will have to serve three extra years in prison. Over and above that sum, if any further assets are discovered by police, these too will be subject to seizure. In the space of 12 months in 1998, Dodds rose from being a penniless rock band roadie with pretensions of becoming a film producer, to becoming an international jet-setter who bought up luxury properties in London s docklands and drove a (pounds) 40,000 Porsche.
Woman shaves head, fakes terminal cancer to dupe friends into funding her dream wedding.
The woman was sentenced to 5 months in jail for fabricating a story saying she had only two months to live.
December 23, 2020 09:47 GMT
A woman who shaved her head to deceitfully convince her friends she had cancer so they would pay for her £8,500 dream wedding has been sentenced to 5 months in jail today. Toni Standen, 29, from Widnes, Cheshire, fabricated a story of being diagnosed with terminal cancer while saying she had only two months to live. This brought her friends together to set up a GoFundMe page to help her and her partner have the wedding they deserve.