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A man who repeatedly planted a spy camera in an Auckland gym s changing rooms to film people naked was promoted to chief executive of Crown entity International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ) after the offending took place.
Phillip Barnes, who earned $250,000 a year, wanted to keep his name, and that of IANZ, secret. But Police, RNZ and NZME opposed name suppression all the way to the Supreme Court. Police also fought his bid to be discharged without conviction.
He can finally be identified today, after Barnes failed to convince the Supreme Court it should hear another appeal on the grounds he had suffered a substantial miscarriage of justice and that his case was of public importance.
Stuff understands. Turia was a “501” deportee who had spent much of his life in Australia before being sent back to New Zealand in 2017. He was on bail awaiting sentencing at Manukau District Court, scheduled for March 26, when he died.
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A police cordon blocking the connection between Birdwood and Avis avenues following the shooting. Court documents show Turia was one of three men charged with robbing a Kiwibank branch at Manukau Westfield mall of $6100 on February 20, 2020. At the time, police said the trio used a sledgehammer to smash their way into the bank in a “very violent robbery”.