A young gang member initially implicated in two Auckland murders during an alleged month-long crime spree in 2019 asked a judge for leniency as he was sentenced for one of the fatal shootings involving an unarmed stranger who was turning away when the fatal blast rang out. Tamati Kas Simpson, now 26, was 21 when he gunned down 23-year-old Faaifo “Joe” Siaosi, who bled to death in his mother’s arms in the front yard outside the family’s Ōtara home. The gunman’s age at the time - and the
A young gang member initially implicated in two Auckland murders during an alleged month-long crime spree in 2019 asked a judge for leniency as he was.