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Putting the plate aside, he could not say for definite that it was his vehicle, Pascoe suggested, and Sandford agreed. She also questioned witness John Stevenson, who claimed his 1994 Toyota Foreruner had been stolen when he stayed at a friend s house. She said her client had bought the vehicle. “I know nothing about Mr Coxhead s apparent purchase. It certainly wasn’t from me,” Stevenson told the court. Sergeant Grant Sawtell also gave further evidence about search warrants in 2017 in Waitara where cannabis was discovered. Pascoe questioned whether there was anything to suggest her client, Matthew Coxhead, had been actively involved in the cultivation of cannabis.
The Coxhead brothers’ judge-alone trial is set to continu on Wednesday.
The judge-alone trial of two brothers facing a litany of charges continued mostly in chambers on Tuesday. The trial of Matthew David Coxhead and Regan Donald Coxhead continued in the New Plymouth District Court, but the majority of the day was spent behind closed doors. The pair are facing charges relating to theft and cannabis. During the short time in open court, Regan Coxhead pleaded guilty to two cannabis charges. Crown prosecutor Jacob Bourke asked questions of witness Sergeant Grant Sawtell around the discovery of cannabis plants at a Waitara address and the sighting of a vehicle.