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He was arrested that morning in Palmerston North, processed at the police station, then taken to prison after a brief court appearance. He was then strip searched in prison, with staff getting 3g of meth off him then, before being taken to his cell for the night. He was spotted the next day smoking meth, with Corrections officers finding 37g of the drug in a bag down his pants. He claimed at trial he found the package on a table in a strip search room.
When he was sentenced, Judge Stephanie Edwards bumped up Tregoweth’s sentence because he had taken the meth into prison.
Crown prosecutor Ben Vanderkolk, when opening the trial on Monday afternoon, said the boy was taken to Palmerston North Hospital in May 2019 with burns to 25 per cent of his body, including his groin and back. Defence lawyer Steve Winter said the woman maintained the burns were caused by the boy pouring a pot of hot water on himself. A friend of the woman said she was asked to go to the woman’s house urgently in 2019. The boy told her he was burnt while making pasta, the friend said. Another child and the mother repeated the same story, with the mother saying she had used lavender and Vaseline to treat the burns.