Crime

The Herald editorial says the fall in crime stats is “good news”.

Recorded crimes are at their lowest for 24 years and crime has fallen in each of the past three years.

That’s good news for everyone – apart from Labour and their buddies.

The excellent work of Crusher Collins has been carried on by Anne Tolley – and it has clearly stung ”Stupid Boy” Fa’afoi who has resorted to the usual lies and distortions.  Read more »

I have no idea why silly idiots attempt to flee the Police. They a) never succeed, b) always get caught, c) usually wind up dead or severely injured.

Four teenage girls were allegedly fighting and knocking over tables at an Auckland cafe shortly before they were critically injured in a crash following a one-minute police pursuit.

The girls, two aged 16 and two 17, had to be cut from the car after it hit a concrete median strip and lost control before crashing into a concrete block wall on Kepa Rd in Kohimarama late last night.

Police said the pursuit lasted about one minute.  Read more »

Wonders will never cease…Stewart Murray Wilson has been recalled to prison.

Stewart Murray Wilson is tonight back behind bars after he allegedly breached the conditions of his parole by phoning someone he shouldn’t have.

Department of Corrections assistant general manager services Maria McDonald confirmed the department had successfully applied for an interim recall to prison for the man – dubbed the Beast of Blenheim.

The Parole Board considered the application this afternoon and Mr Wilson has since been returned to prison.  Read more »

The Herald reports:

Two people who stole a charity donation box from a Hastings petrol station have been described as the “lowest of the low” by police.

Security camera footage taken at the Heretaunga St business on January 11 shows two people approaching the counter and asking to buy cigarettes.

While the attendant’s back is turned, one takes a donation box for Riding for the Disabled off the counter and stuffs it inside his hoodie.   Read more »

The justice secretary in the UK, Chris Grayling wants hardened crims to stay longer in prison:

Hardened criminals should serve more time in prison and not be granted automatic early release because locking them up cuts crime, the Justice Secretary has said.

Surely we could just string up the baddest bastards?

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Chris Grayling says that he would “ultimately” like to introduce a system under which only prisoners who have behaved well are released early.

Casting aside the doubts of his predecessor, Kenneth Clarke, Mr Grayling insists that putting “people behind bars reduces crime”.

However, he warns that “there are financial constraints” and that such radical changes cannot be delivered “overnight”.

The vast majority of prisoners are automatically released after serving half their sentence under rules introduced by Labour, which removed discretion within the system to release only those who had behaved well.

As a result, thousands of dangerous criminals and rapists have been returned to the streets after serving just a few years in prison.

Looks like they have the same problem over there as we do. Soft judiciary, panty waist politicians soft on crime…and criminals walking the streets instead of crushing rocks.  Read more »

We all know that the Herald Bombs…now Fairfax has caught the disease. I note there is no-one calling for the banning of knives.

Nice to see Corrections taking my advice:

The Department of Corrections says the man has access to food and water and it will not and has not provided him with any.

And while we’re looking at crime stories, here’s another jaw dropping one:

The 29-year-old man, who was adopted as a baby, was sentenced to five years and nine months prison after being convicted of assaulting and raping his biological mother.

The offence occurred some months after he tracked her down to ask questions about his parentage last year.

Rather than multiple rapes, he was convicted of nine counts of incest after the jury found the sexual relationship they embarked on was consensual to begin with.

You really can’t make this stuff up.  But it gets better worse.

Jurors were shown evidence, and the woman broke down repeatedly giving her testimony, and at times ran from the court.

She said she was ”doing what she was told to do”, which included ”performing like a porn star”.

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“(The complainant) said she had to ask permission from the appellant to do everything from eating, showering or even going to the toilet against the threat that she would be punched in the face,” the decision reads.

“We consider it was open for the jury to accept her evidence that non-consensual activity had taken place during the period.”

Yes, that’s how you treat your mum.

But this puts the cherry on top:

The man made contact with his biological mother on Mother’s Day.

An article claiming that a teen stabbed in the face in Wanganui had no gang association:

Medical staff have told the father of a teenage boy stabbed in the face with a screwdriver in Wanganui that it is too dangerous to operate to remove a piece of bone in his brain.

The father of Manutahi Edward, 16, has also denied his son is a member of a gang.

The teenager was stabbed in the face with a screwdriver on Wednesday night on the corner or Keith St and Glasgow St, reportedly because he was wearing a blue hat, a colour associated with the Black Power gang.

He was initially taken to Wanganui Hospital but transferred to Wellington Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.

Len Kahui said the stabbing into his son’s cheekbone had been so violent it had pushed a piece of bone up into his brain.

“The piece of bone is in a bad position and the doctors told me it was too dangerous to operate. They told me that only time will be the healer now.”