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HOODWINKED. ONLY A FLIGHT OF FANTASY BY MR. R
VICTOR. - 22.04.2002 02:38
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND NEWS.
HOODWINKED. ONLY A FLIGHT OF FANTASY BY MR. REINHADT LIM. (english)
Embezzlers. Shysters, Unmitigated Lying.
Original article is at  http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/15736.php
Police halt fraud case developers trip. Bailed Man in Airport Drama. A property developer who has been accused of ripping off Gold Coast builders and investors was stopped at Sydney Airport trying to flee Australia with a one-way ticket to Indonesia, a judge was told.
Reinhadt Lim was yesterday inside the Indonesian embassy in Canberra seeking asylum when Southport District Court Judge Robert Hall issued a warrant for his arrest. Mr. Lim later left the embassy and handed himself over to Immigration Department officials. He is accused of charges involving $400,000. Some of the charges relate to a millionaires housing development at Robina called Isle of Istana. Judge Hall was told Mr. Lim had attempted to flee a week before he was to stand trial in Southport District Court on 28 fraud charges.
Mr. Lim had been free on bail. Special conditions were attached to the bail that prevented him from approaching airports. He also had to surrender his passport to the authorities. Crown prosecutor Sarah Thompson said Mr. Lim had surrendered his passport to Indonesian embassy officials instead of Australian authorities.
Ms Thompson said Mr. Lims passport had later been returned to him by the embassy. The passport is now held by the Australian Federal Police. An AFP spokesperson confirmed Mr. Lim was stopped as he tried to board a 7am flight to Jakarta on Sunday. He said Mr. Lim was not held because at that time no arrest warrant existed. Mr. Lim solicitor, David Field, received a letter by fax late on Sunday afternoon explaining his clients plan to leave Australia, the District Court was told.
The letter was partly typed and partly hand written, Ms Thompson told the court. Mr. Lim told his lawyers he had been ordered out of Australia by the Immigration Department because his visa expired on Sunday. An Immigration Department spokesperson yesterday refused to comment, saying it was not policy to discuss individual cases. However, Acting Inspector Dave Danslow, from the Brisbane Major Fraud Squad, said he believed Immigration Department officials were holding Mr. Lim.
He said Queensland detectives would travel to Canberra today to extradite Mr. Lim back to the Gold Coast. The trial is due to start on Monday and is expected to last for up to a month. Barrister Bernard Reilly and Mr. Field yesterday told Judge Hall they would withdraw their legal representation of Mr. Lim.
Mr. Reilly said Mr. Lim had gone against Mr. Fields instructions by approaching the Sydney International Airport. In addition, Mr. Lim had failed to attend a legal conference recently scheduled to discuss his forthcoming trial. Some of the fraud charges surround his dealing with the Robina development Isle of Istana, which is now under new management.
Police allege Mr. Lim and another man falsely claimed to investors that millions of dollars in overseas finance had been available.
OBSERVATION. The Scam Used by the Immigration Authorities at the Airport would have been to hold this person and run their various checks. I am aware of a person who received notification to leave the country, as his visa had expired and turns up at the airport only to be arrested as there was a warrant for his "we want to look after you at the taxpayers expense" arrest. I understand his wife was with him and was arrested. How do they fall for this?
A "CORRUPT" JUDGE EVERITT. SHOULD PACK HIS BAGS
By VICTOR.
Cop Caught Out.
Jail term for bashing a New Zealand prisoner 16.04.2002 Whangarei police have started an inquiry into how an off-duty policeman, who was yesterday sentenced to prison for attacking a prisoner, got hold of the keys to the inmate´s cell. Michael Hendrik De Waal, 36, was sentenced to six months´ imprisonment. Nevertheless, Judge Thomas Everitt gave him a month´s grace to enable him to apply for home detention.
Last month, De Waal was convicted of assault and burglary charges after he took the keys to the Whangarei police cells and punched and slapped prisoner Nigel Gibb on August 12 last year. Judge Everitt, sitting in the Whangarei District Court, heard how De Waal had subjected Gibb to gross degradation, forcing him to kneel and apologise in a humiliating way.
De Waal, who was off duty at the time, went to the station to sort things out for his brother-in-law, who had been in a fight with Gibb and had been arrested. His brother-in-law´s girlfriend had earlier telephoned him and told him about the fight. De Waal knew where the keys were and just grabbed them. Inspector Rex Knight, officer in charge of the case, said there would be an investigation. "Normally, someone would ask what he was doing in the station [but] the watch house keeper was busy dealing with other people. Police staff off duty can access police stations, but it is a different story to access a cell block." De Waal told the Herald he felt "absolutely bad and shocked" about his actions and wanted to apologise.
He had resigned from the police and shifted to Queensland because he did not want to face the people of Whangarei. De Waal said his wife had left him the day he started in the police three years ago. "I guess it all came to a head. I just lost it even though I never lose it with anyone. "Being a police officer was something I wanted to do right through my life ... It was a good way to give back to the community. I said if the job ever changed me I would quit." Outside court, Mr Gibb said he planned to take legal action against De Waal. On the Saturday of the attack, the 21-year-old timber worker had drunk eight tequila shots at a friend´s place from about 9pm and was reasonably drunk.
He went into town with friends and got into a fight in Cameron St with a man he later discovered was De Waal´s brother-in-law. The police arrived and he was taken to a cell. Mr Gibb said De Waal came into the cell and grabbed him by the throat before taking him over to his brother-in-law´s cell. "He told me to get down on my knees and beg for forgiveness ... I felt bloody scared," he said. The next day he had a sore head and marks on his throat.
"My mum [Mary Gibb] knows I am not the most perfect person out there, but when she saw all the bruises she was disgusted." The police telephoned him and took him back to the station to ask what happened. Judge Everitt said De Waal had probably drunk too much that night. "It was 50 years ago that prisoners were treated that way." The judge said the case could contribute to a loss of confidence in the police.
"In Whangarei in particular there have been public claims to the extent of a group of solicitors forming a watch group to oversee police actions." Judge Everitt gave De Waal leave to apply for home detention so he did not receive the treatment he had given to Mr Gibb. "With a custodial sentence you could be subject to the same behaviour.
Whatever you have done you do not deserve to be treated in the same way." Judge Everitt said De Waal was not a bad character and it was a one-off situation. Auckland barrister Barry Hart said it was rare for a judge to give someone leave to apply for home detention. "Most people go into custody." Mr Knight said the case was not part of an investigation into the conduct of the Whangarei police. De Waal had "completely over- stepped the mark" and to his credit, he had recognized the warning sign and resigned.
EMBEZZLER AND SWINDLERS.
By VICTOR. Saturday April 20, 2002 at 02:38 AM
CAUGHT OUT.
By VICTOR. 11:08am Fri Apr 19 ´02
WOMAN JOINS POLICE IN JAIL.
A former Gold Coast woman involved in a
Protection racket was jailed for nine months
yesterday. Miranda Zannetti, 50, pleaded guilty in the District Court in Brisbane to one charge of official corruption.
The court was told that Zannetti had told an undercover CJC officer that she could arrange contact with police who provided protection for people involved in the illegal drug trade.
Zanetti introduced the officer to former Gold Coast detective Silvio Spidalieri, who introduced him to two other local detectives.
The three ex-police, another civilian, and now Zanetti are in jail. Somewhat stupid ex police caught in a sting operation.
CON ARTISTS
by VICTOR. 4:00pm Fri Apr 19 ´02
NOT BOAT PEOPLE.
by VICTOR 11:02am Fri Apr 19 ´02
CON ARTISTS SET SIGHTS ON ELDERLY IN NEW STING.
Crooks have swindled nearly $20,000 in three months from an elderly Queensland woman who has Alzheimers disease. Queensland Fair Trading Commissioner Matt Miller said yesterday that the woman was induced by phone calls from Canada to send large sums of cash, with the calls supplemented by a flood of similar mail.
The phone calls promised prizes of cars, pianos and jewellery in return for money up to $3000, he said. Mr Miller said scammers often-targeted nursing homes, with international research showing that up to 60 per cent of victims were aged over 60.
He urged the friends and family of elderly people to be on the lookout for warning signs that their loved ones might be being ripped off.
Signs included secretive behaviour, sudden financial difficulties, odd bank transactions and large amounts of personally addressed junk mail, he said.
The Office of Fair Trading is also aware of another elderly woman who received a call from two Canadian men in a similar swindle.
EMBEZZLER AND SWINDLER.
by VICTOR. 11:53am Fri Apr 19 ´02
´REAL ESTATE FRAUD. Marketeer Dudley Quinlivan.
Property buyers are warned to be on their toes. They are operating in Auckland N.Z.
The Gold Coast´s image has taken a battering with allegations the property marketeers are making big profits at the expense of unsuspecting investors. Marketeering-where investment properties are sold to interstate investors using tactics including free holidays, investment seminars, street touting, and telemarketing-is not new.
However, in recent times, marketeers have begun targeting the re-sale market, buying duplexes and townhouses on the cheap after telemarketing the owners, and then on selling them weeks later for reported profits of up to 50%.
"Sucker Kiwis have found their investments worth 50% less than they paid. Mr. Dudley Quinlivan is reported to be selling as many as 300 properties a month. The former bankrupt has denied so-called two-tiered marketing. Its an old adage: ´a fool and his money are soon parted´. On the Gold Coast, you will find shyster lawyers, values, builders, and property agents. Mr Dudley Quinlivan "These were heartless, cruel, ruthless, and calculated frauds, perpetrated with an almost psychopathic disregard to the harm done to feelings of his client. The wrong people usually die.
´Every second person on the Gold Coast is a crook´ and 30% have come from New Zealand. "Boiler-room swindles. There is a parallel in the share scams in Bangkok, where Australians and New Zealanders have been relieved of millions of dollars by sending money overseas to buy shares, which were ´assured´ will make big profits-tax free. Time for a serious public education campaign, and not just in the [newspaper] finance pages as the people being sucked in are unlikely to read those.
In Queensland if one does not settle on a high-rise unit by 5pm on the day of settlement your deposit is lost. No, provision for late settlement like in N.Z. Sun City Resort Hotel a high rise in Surfers Paradise. A link arrived a day late and a call from the Sunland Group lawyers at Bundall to the effect the deposit was forfeited. The sum being $25,000.00. It maybe put it back on track. a purchase valuation was obtained being AUD 25 1000 under the settlement price.
Building project, taking two years and property prices fell. Never buy of the plan if you intend to purchase, unless you are a drug dealer with money to burn. Learn the rackets, like Body corp. There were pumping out problems during the construction phase of Sun City. The Bundall Australian lawyers made it clear to our link that ´if he went public they would sue´.
A police officer from Melbourne cooked "electrocuted" in the Sun City Resort Hotel swimming pool. One investor in Sun City advertised and took AUD75 1000 losses just after the settlement date. The wrong people usually die. Monday, 19 Nov 2001
TWO BOB CROOKS.
by VICTOR. Saturday April 20, 2002 at 02:47 AM
A ROTTEN AUSTRALIAN BURKE.
by VICTOR. 11:56am Fri Apr 19 ´02
ADVISER JAILED ON $5m FRAUDS.
Fast living and slow horses caught up with former Tweed Heads investment adviser Kerry Burke yesterday when he was jailed for 10 years on a string of fraud charges.
The 41-year-old racetrack identity used deceit and dishonesty to defraud clients of more than $5 million and squander it on his business pursuits and ostentatious lifestyle. Judge William Ducker said a paper trail disclosed Burke as a heartless confidence man who destroyed the retirement prospects of his victims, leaving many of them penniless.
"It´s difficult to see how anyone could get enjoyment or satisfaction by gambling away the life savings of ordinary, honest, and not terribly wealthy clients," he said. Among those who entrusted Burke with their nest eggs, was his father- in -law, who lost $410,000, forcing him and his wife to return to work? Other victims of Burks six- year period of ´gravely serious criminal conduct´ was a 77-year-old nursing home resident who lost more than $500,000, and an elderly couple who lost $1.5 million.
Strangely, none of his 36 victims or family was in the District Court of Lismore to see Burke sitting expressionless in the dock as the judge passed sentence, setting a 7 1/2 year non-parole period. Burke, who
who pleaded guilty to 51 fraud charges, claimed most of the money was lost on business ventures, including $2.5 million to the Eagleby Civic and All Sports Club and Counteract Rode Systems Ltd. Judge Ducker said burke owned about 40 racehorses, most of them very modest performers.
Judge Ducker said Burke deceived people who believed the great many lies he told in his total amoral pursuit of money to use for his own purposes. Judge Ducker revealed the once-trusted adviser was convicted in 1985 of 18 counts of larceny as clerk, one of embezzlement, two of making false statements and 18 of destroying or falsifying records.
´Undeterred by his narrow escape from prison and despite his criminal record, the defendant, with surprising ease, set himself up as a financial advisers´, said the judge.
In many ways it was astonishing that he was able to get away with such blatant fraud for so long ´. Judge Ducker said there was an urgent need to more closely supervise people who acted as investment advisers and to impose some form of licensing requirements. Burke pleaded to 40 counts of obtaining $4,490,563 by deception and 11 charges of using false documents to withdraw $923,150. Saturday, 17 November 2001
JUST THEIR FINEST MEN.
By VICTOR. 12:06pm Fri Apr 19 ´02
New Zealand. Thursday, November 01, 2001 13:00:50 PM Stephen Tresidder. A Police officer faces charge of perjury 30.10 2001- A Whakatane police sergeant has been committed for trail on a charge of perjury.
QUEENSLAND Australia.11/10/01 Policeman before the court after allegedly trying to induce a couple to give their pubic hair so they could become police informants. There is 41 fraud, assault, and sex-related charges. Does not need to report to the police on a regular basis.
ONCE A DOG ALWAYS A DOG.
by VICTOR. 1:26pm Fri Apr 19 ´02
Disgraced judge appointed as human rights director. Disgraced former New Zealand District Court judge Robert Hesketh has been appointed director of human rights proceedings in the Human Rights Commission.
Mr Hesketh -- who in 1997 admitted fiddling his expenses, lost his seat on the bench and was fined -- will take up the position in a new group of commissioners appointed today.
Mr Hesketh was fined $8000 after pleading guilty in Auckland District Court to fraudulently claiming $815 in travel expenses and was struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors later that year.
Mr Hesketh was readmitted to the roll unconditionally in 1999, with the Law Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal noting he was a person of "real integrity, probity, and trustworthiness.
Announcing Mr Hesketh´s appointment today, Associate Justice Minister Margaret Wilson said Mr Hesketh had the "appropriate experience and skills" for the advocacy position. She acknowledged he had been "guilty of an error of judgment" while a District Court judge, but said "even in his troubles he had acted with integrity.
Ms Wilson said Mr Hesketh had 20 years´ experience in the criminal justice system. He was an accredited mediator of Lawyers Engaged in Alternative Dispute Resolution (LEADR) and had been a guest instructor at LEADR courses.
Mr Hesketh was a tenancy adjudicator for eight years and was active in a number of community organisations, such as Citizens Advice Bureaux and Lifeline.
"The Government feels it is important people like Mr Hesketh are allowed to get on with their lives and make their positive contribution to the community," Ms Wilson said.
Mr Hesketh will take up his position on June 1.
Three new commissioners were among the group named today by chief human rights commissioner Rosslyn Noonan. Joy Liddicoat, Robyn Hunt, and Dr Merimeri Penfold received their warrants today.
Ms Noonan congratulated current commissioners Warren Lindberg and Michael Powles, who have been reappointed for a further five years. She also welcomed Mr Hesketh´s appointment and a new chairperson for the human rights review tribunal, Royden Hindle
Observation: Always funny, how a professionals only make errors of judgement but others are just low down criminal types. An embezzler with integrity? Their only principal is interest in their bank accounts.
EMBEZZLER AND SWINDLER.
Saturday April 20, 2002 at 02:53 AM
by VICTOR. 11:53am Fri Apr 19 ´02
´REAL ESTATE FRAUD. Marketeer Dudley Quinlivan.
Property buyers are warned to be on their toes. They are operating in Auckland NEW ZEALAND.
The Gold Coast´s image has taken a battering with allegations the property marketeers are making big profits at the expense of unsuspecting investors. Marketeering-where investment properties are sold to interstate investors using tactics including free holidays, investment seminars, street touting, and telemarketing-is not new.
However, in recent times, marketeers have begun targeting the re-sale market, buying duplexes and townhouses on the cheap after telemarketing the owners, and then on selling them weeks later for reported profits of up to 50%.
Sucker KiwiS have found their investments worth 50% less than they paid. Mr. Dudley Quinlivan is reported to be selling as many as 300 properties a month. The former bankrupt has denied so-called two-tiered marketing.Its an old adage: ´a fool and his money are soon parted´. On the Gold Coast, you will find shyster lawyers, values, builders, and property agents.
´Every second person on the Gold Coast is a crook´ and 40% have come from New Zealand. "Boiler-room swindles. There is a parallel in the share scams in Bangkok, where Australians and New Zealanders have been relieved of millions of dollars by sending money overseas to buy shares, which were ´assured´ will make big profits-tax free. Time for a serious public education campaign, and not just in the [newspaper] finance pages as the people being sucked in are unlikely to read those.
In Queensland if one does not settle on a high-rise unit by 5pm on the day of settlement your deposit is lost. No, provision for late settlement like in N.Z. Sun City Resort Hotel a high rise in Surfers Paradise. A link arrived a day late and a call from the Sunland Group lawyers at Bundall to the effect the deposit was forfeited. The sum being $25,000.00. It maybe put it back on track. The purchase. A valuation was obtained being AUD 25 1000 under the settlement price.
Building project, taking two years and property
prices fell. Never buy of the plan if you intend to purchase, unless you are a drug dealer. Learn the rackets, like Body corp. There were pumping out problems during the construction phase of Sun City. The Bundall lawyers made it clear to our link that ´if he went public they would sue´.
A police officer from Melbourne cooked "electrocuted" in the Sun City Resort Hotel swimming pool. One investor in Sun City advertised and took AUD75 1000 losses just after the settlement date. Back to Mr Dudley Quinlivan "These were heartless, cruel, ruthless, and calculated frauds, perpetrated with an almost psychopathic disregard to the harm done to feelings of his client. Its the wrong people usually die. Monday, 19 Nov 2001
SOLD DOWN THE DRAIN !
By VICTOR. 11:21am Fri Apr 19 ´02
FURY at ´whitewash´ bid over Harry Smith.
People who lost money through solicitor´s first mortgage schemes were victims of predatory lawyers, not speculative investments, says the Smith Action Group. The group has launched an attack on the Queensland Law Society saying it was ´trying to whitewash all the blatant stealing´ by some solicitors involved in first mortgage loans, assisted by the ´lawyer-ridden´ Queensland Government.
In last week´s Sun, Law Society president Joe Tooma said most first mortgage investment schemes had performed satisfactorily and the fact that some had failed was a reflection of the nature of speculative investment. He said no solicitors had faced charges for fraudulent mortgage activity.
The comments angered the Smith Action Group, whose members lost about $6 million invested with Harry Smith, was sentenced by Judge Wilson to 10 years jail in April this year for misappropriation. Will only serve 4.5 years. Our view "A corrupt Queensland Court system. Smith was already serving a six and a half year term in New South Wales for stealing $2.8 million of clients´ funds in that state.
Smith´s NSW victims were compensated by that state´s law society, plus 8 percent interest and legal costs, after intervention by the NSW Government. Smith´s Queensland victims have received only part compensation. On top of that, the State Government introduced retrospective legislation to limit the amount of money Smith´s victims could be paid from the QLS Legal Practitioners Fidelity Guarantee Fund - a fund set up to reimburse clients defrauded by lawyers.
As a result, Queensland victims are entitled to their capital investments, less any interest payments received. In effect, the law considers interest as a repayment of the capital, meaning some long-term investors have lost all their capital.
The only area in which Q.L.S and victims seem to agree is that valuations in some cases were well above true value.
"In some cases the valuations were downright criminal," said spokes-woman, Helen Rossini. She said the QLS failed in its duty when it ´had the goods´ on Smith, but allowed him to hand in his practicing certificate in Queensland, and failed to inform the NSW Law Society. Smith then went on to defraud NSW clients.
Ms Rossini said the retrospective law introduced in Queensland cost Smith´s victims about $4.5 million. â?128??156?Nowhere else in the world could a law like this be pushed through Parliament," said Ms Rossini.
"This is how far they will go to in Queensland to protect lawyer buddies." Western Australian consumers advocate Denise Brailey says the Q.L.S had received hundreds of complaints during the past decade yet refused to investigate the cases.
"The Q.L.S lack of professionalism can only be measured by it unwillingness to expose colleagues," she said. "Most of the Queensland victims who have watched an estimated 50 per cent of $800 million of hard earned savings disappear into a bottomless pit of solicitor trust accounts are rightly outraged and feel an unprecedented collective anger upon those who are sworn to uphold the law. Smith operated an unregistered mortgage practice. He stole money from his clients, was caught, struck off the roll of solicitors, and sent to JAIL.
ON THE ROAD JACK.
By VICTOR. 11:24am Fri Apr 19 ´02
"Financial Adviser Fraudster."
Jail for financial adviser who duped elderly, naive clients. A Southport financial adviser who led police on an international manhunt was yesterday sentenced to seven years´ jail.
Former National Mutual employee Leonard John Smith was found guilty on 22 fraud charges and 7 counts of dishonestly gaining funds after a long trial and indictment in the District Court at Southport Queensland this week. The court was told that the 55-year-old encouraged elderly Gold Coast residents to transfer funds into a non-existent financial institution dubbed the British Marine Bank.
The fictitious bank was the invention of former Sydney financier George Balus, who last year was sentenced to 11 years´ jail on fraud charges involving $12 million in investments. However, defence barrister Rod Clifford said Smith, who has spent 478 days in Hong Kong and Queensland prisons, helped officials retrieve more than $2.4 million from an English account.
"Mr. Smith is aware that many elderly people lost their life savings." Australian Securities and Investments Commission Queensland principal lawyer Niall Coburn said Smih led police on a chase, which was joined by New Scotland Yard and Interpol officers, through Britain, Antigua, Beijing and Hong Kong.
Monday, 19 November 2001
JUST CROOKS.
Author: Victor Jean.
Date: 02-20-02 23:09
Constable heads back to frontline
By BRIDGET CARTER and NZPA
The constable who shot Steven Wallace is expected to return to frontline policing now that a private murder charge against him has been thrown out of court.
Justices of the peace Bob Moffat and John More yesterday found that Constable Keith Abbott acted in self-defence when he killed Mr Wallace in Waitara in April 2000 and they dismissed the case in the New Plymouth District Court.
Mr Moffat also told the constable he had not breached police policy in shooting Mr Wallace. "The defendant is discharged." Outside the court, Constable Abbott said he was relieved the hearing was over. He thanked the people who had given him a "massive amount of support. All those people know who they are and I just appreciate it - heaps." Constable Abbott said his strength throughout the prosecution had come "from my ladies - Susan and my wife. Susan Hughes, his lawyer, said Constable Abbott and his family had gone through "hell on Earth, but it´s ended".
Mr Wallace´s mother, Raewyn Wallace, left the court quickly after the ruling and was followed by the rest of the family. Steven Wallace´s sister, Kelly, said her family were extremely disappointed at the outcome. "We think it is just a great injustice to Steven, the family and New Zealand." The JPs´ decision, after a 4 1/2-week depositions hearing, came as a surprise because both the prosecution and the defence had asked for the case to be sent to the High Court. The private murder prosecution was unprecedented in New Zealand law.
Superintendent Mark Lammas, the police central district commander, said Constable Abbott was now expected to return to work and carry out frontline duties, where he could face armed situations. The lawyer for Steven Wallace´s family, John Rowan, QC, said he intended to advise Mr Wallace´s family to seek an administrative review of the decision in the High Court. "I am confident that when that is heard, the decision will be overturned and the matter sent for trial."
The prosecution has two other options available to keep the case before the courts. One is to re-lay the private murder charge - but Constable Abbott´s lawyer, Susan Hughes, says she will ask the Solicitor-General to block such a move.
The second is that Constable Abbott could still be committed for trial in the unlikely event that the consent of the Attorney-General could be obtained.
This is considered unlikely as the Attorney-General takes advice from the Solicitor-General, who ruled there was no case to answer when the police investigated the case. A review of yesterday´s decision would involve a High Court judge re-examining depositions evidence and the decision. A decision on whether to pursue a review would not be made immediately and it was not a straightforward procedure, said Mr Rowan.
He believed the JPs had gone too far in the decision. "Their function was to find whether or not there was a prima facie case, whether or not there was sufficient evidence for trial. In their ruling they have gone beyond that on the issue of self-defence and also on the issue of police practices and procedures, and on which you will know there was totally conflicting evidence." Mr Rowan said he had asked for the hearing to be held before a judge but the defence had opposed that. The court had also advised that a judge was not available for depositions of such length. "I think these cases of very great seriousness and complexity should be heard before a judge."
The defence had also originally wanted the case referred up so it could apply to stop an indictment being laid and ask for an acquittal. Susan Hughes said that in her opening, she had said the prosecution was a travesty and that history would reveal it as the most misguided piece of litigation ever launched - "and this decision reveals it for just that.
Two JP´s do not conistute one Judge. Their ability to hear such a case is suspect. The half-breeds parents were out gunned from the very start. Cunning is being able to slide around the strong points of the law. The police on behalf of "Embezzler" Maurice Gordon Teague an Accountant of Clarkville Kaiapoi NZ, placed before two JP´s a doctors report, to the effect he was bringing up his food. He had already embezzled say $600,000.00 AUD. Just a further legal ploy. One "dog" of a JP fell for it and the defendant had no chance of a lawyer at that stage. One JP said, "It was not in the public interest to let V out on bail. The Law is just a series of cunning moves. In fact, JP´s cannot grant bail.
Re: The coloured PERSON never stood any chance on the street, nor his parents in the courts.
Author: AMERICAN WOMAN (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: 02-20-02 23:38
I AM NOT TRYING TO OFFEND ANYONE BY REPOSTING MY LAST POST ON THIS TOPIC. I AM MERELY STATED THAT I KNEW THE OUT COME WOULD BE THIS ONE. IN ADDITION, THAT´S WHY I´M REPOSTING IT. NOT FOR ANY OTHER REASON BUT THAT. ONLY FOR THE REASON THAT THE POLICE WOULD GET OFF, BECAUSE OF PROCEDURES.
Author: AMERICAN WOMAN (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: 02-13-02 03:49
I´M SORRY, I DID NOT SEE RUBY´S OPINION OR VIEW ON THE TOPIC... THE STORY OF MR.WALLACE´S DEATH IS TRULY SAD... THE EVIDENCE STATE´S, HE WAS SHOT TO DEATH BY THREE POLICE OFFICERS BECAUSE HE HAD A BASE BALL BAT. THE TESTIMONY IS
THE THREE OFFICER´S COULD HAVE TAKEN HIM WITHOUT DEADLY FORCE
BY USING THEIR BATON´S.. AN EX~SENIOR SERGEANT JOHN MORAN DID NOT THINK THIS. THAT THE DEADLY FORCE WAS THE RIGHT ACTION.
FOLLOWING POLICE PROCEDURES AND POLICY...MR. WALLACE
USED HIS BASE BALL BAT AS A DEADLY WEAPON...THE OFFICER´S
FELT THREATENED BY THIS SO THEY SHOT HIM. FEARING NO OTHER OPTION´S...SO IN THEIR COUNTRY AND OURS YOU PICK UP A BASE BALL BAT AND USE IT AS A WEAPON AND INTEND TO USE IT AS DEADLY FORCE
YOU LOSE YOUR LIFE...NOT! UNFORTUNATELY, THEY ARE COVERED
BY THOSE SAME POLICE AND PROCEDURE POLICY I MERELY ASK TO
STAY WITH THIS FORUM.... (WITH OUT PREJUDICE) KEY WORD... I COULD NOT SEE THE DIRECTION IN WHICH THEY WERE GOING, BECAUSE IT WAS A COPY / PASTE...
THAT BEING MY POINT...I MYSELF DO NOT KNOW THE OUT COME OF THIS TRIAL...AT LEAST RUBY IS NOT ABUSING HER FREEDOM OF SPEECH
W/THE INTENT TO CAUSE HARM TO ANYONE...AND IF THEY HAD ANYTHING
TO SAY ON THIS ISSUE IT WOULD BE APPRECIATED...I WELCOME ALL VIEW´S, STATEMENT´S, OPINION´S, REALLY ON ALL TOPIC IS...IF ONE WANT´S TO EXPRESS IT. EXCEPT ABUSE...
QUOTE: (But that is just me. I´ve been known to be a little silly.)
GOD BLESS...
GUNNED DOWN ON THE STREET.
By VICTOR. Saturday April 20, 2002 at 03:08 AM
Keith Abbott
AKA - "Keith the Chief"
AKA - "Abbo"
This is the photograph of Constable ´A´, the Police Constable responsible for killing Steven Wallace at Waitara in the early morning of 30 April 2000. The New Zealand media, (excepting the National Business Review), have entered into an agreement with the New Zealand Police not to identify Keith Abbott, even though the Full Court of the New Zealand High Court have refused an application for name suppression. In Gods name why?
Against that background, Mr Dermot Nottingham the publisher of this website undertook an independent investigation into the killing of Mr Wallace by Constable Abbott. His report can be found below. Its conclusion is that there is a prima facie case against the Police Constable for murder. Mr Nottingham is alleging that there has been a Police cover-up.
Upon the publishing of the report and the photograph of Constable Keith Abbot on this website the reaction has been amazing. On one hand, Mr Nottingham has been threatened by the Police and by other individuals. One individual threatened to kill Mr Nottingham and his family. Mr Nottingham remains undeterred to see justice be seen to be done. On the other hand, there has been hundreds of thousands of hits on the site. Previously you had to actually affirmative click a button to see the photograph. This facility was removed when only 16 people did not click to see the photograph after presumably having read Mr Nottinghams report.
It is strange indeed that the media having agreed not to identify the Killer, because presumably he was a Police Officer (and the Police report cleared the killer of any wrongdoing), should run a massive number of stories about the website that named and displayed a photograph of the Killer. Was this the media´s integrity being disclosed for what it really was? Reach an agreement with the Police and then effectively break it by blaming this website. The majority of New Zealanders would not have known this website and the identity of the Killer if the media had not gone into frenzy over the story of this website, and effectively advertised the presence of the site.
Importantly Mr Nottinghams reports conclusions that a charge for murder should be brought are based on the evidence which is contained in the Police report and yet have been completely missed by the New Zealand Police and the media. Most importantly, the most damaging evidence against the Killer is his own statement, which incomprehensibly is used by the Police Reports author, Detective Inspector BR Pearce to find that no grounds exist for the Killer to face a charge of unlawful killing.
From the emails received addressed to this sites publisher, the vast majority of New Zealanders believe that the New Zealand media, (other than this site and National Business Review) are gutless lackey´s of the establishment, who have actually used the promotion of this site on the television news, the radio, and the printed media to breach what was an agreement that should affront the most conservative citizen.
The photograph of the killer of Steven Wallace can now be found on numerous websites, message boards, and electronic forums worldwide.
Advantage Advocacy as a small part of the New Zealand media has shown that free speech cannot be suppressed by the need to have millions of dollars to run a newspaper, a radio station, or a television station. All of which is done by these media moguls purely for the motive of profit from New Zealanders need and right to know what is happening in this country. The internet gives the meaning of free speech its true essence.
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Corrupt Police Actioning Revenge.
By VICTOR. Saturday April 20, 2002 at 03:13 AM
by a-hacker Tue Mar 5 13:02:23 PST 2002
WEDNESDAY, 06 MARCH 2002
Sex case man revealed
By MARTIN VAN BEYNEN
The High Court has lifted the order suppressing the name of a Christchurch businessman convicted of trying to buy sex from a 12-year-old girl.
He is Craig Steven Mackay, 37, a director and part owner of the business South Island Bearing Distributors Ltd, a business employing about four people. Mackay was targeted in a police sting in April and May last year in which a policewoman posed as a mother who was prepared to let her 12-year-old daughter be used for sex. The company director was convicted of the offence on January 28 after a defended hearing in December last year.
At sentencing Judge Christopher Somerville fined Mackay $2500 and suppressed his name on grounds, he presented a low risk of reoffending and publication of his name would jeopardise the employment of his staff.
The police appealed the decision after the Solicitor-General reviewed the file. Justices Panckhurst and Chisholm, in their reserved judgment released yesterday, said that although Mackay might present a lesser risk than other offenders, the risk existed and "given the serious nature of the offence the presumption in favour of open reporting should have prevailed. KBS Bakeries owner Kim Buckley, who was one of three Christchurch businessmen, including car dealer Rick Armstrong, wrongly identified as the offender by rumours circulating in Christchurch last month, welcomed the decision.
Mr Buckley said he felt "a bit sorry" for Mackay, but lifting of the suppression removed the risk of others being wrongly maligned and showed businesspeople could not claim special protection.
Mackay had gone to ground yesterday. There was no sign of him at his business in Sydenham or at his home in Bromley, which is about 100m from the grounds of Bromley School. A security person met media personnel outside the door of Mackay´s business premises to say staff did not want to comment and that Mackay was not there. The business was open.
Mackay´s Auckland business partners declined to comment although one indicated Mackay had hired a public relations firm and had posted security at his business. The head of the Bromley School board of trustees, Ailsa McBride, said the school should have been told about Mackay´s conviction and whereabouts even if his name was not made generally available.
Rumours had been "flying" in the area, which had put an "awful cloud over everybody. People had been worried and more information could have put minds at rest, she said. In their decision Justices Panckhurst and Chisholm expressed a "good deal of sympathy" for Mackay due to the momentum the case had gathered since his conviction, which would mean his identity would receive heightened attention. To mitigate that effect the court had tried to put the salient features of Mackay´s "true criminality in the public domain, the justices said.
These features included the fact Mackay had a regular meeting with a prostitute and gratified himself without physical contact and with the prostitute remaining clothed. Sexual discussion and fantasy were of great appeal to him.
His interest in younger girls, whom he referred to as innocent and flat chested, was expressed in the course of such a regular meeting. The sting operation removed obstacles, which allowed things to proceed further than they would normally have gone. Mackay´s insistence that the mother of the girl consented to her child´s involvement, which introduced an "air of unreality into the transaction. Mackay´s hesitation at carrying on with the transaction.
The absence of any material at his home or work of an interest in paedophilia. "There is now a perception in some quarters that the respondent is a pedophile when in fact there is no evidence he has actually committed any sexual act on a young person.
The most that can be said is that in the most unusual of circumstances ... he set out to reoffend," the court said. Despite those factors, the fact remained Mackay had attempted to procure a 12-year-old child, participated to the point of paying a considerable sum, and accepted condoms from the sting´s protagonists, the judges said.
A police warning to Mackay in 1993 about his approach to two 14-year-old girls could not be ignored. "A single act at a time when the respondent was clinically depressed may be viewed in one light, but that act against the background of the warning, also referable to under-age girls, necessitated a less benevolent assessment of risk." The judges said clear evidence existed that suspicion fell on others due to the suppression, and illustrated why open reporting of criminal proceedings was accorded such primacy. "In cases of serious offending experience has shown the most healthy course is to allow outcomes to be fully reported.
Otherwise the possibility exists others may be put at risk." ACT MP Stephen Franks said the case had prompted him to submit a Supplementary Order Paper to the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill, which would abolish name suppression except when the victim asked for it. The submission would mean the issue was debated when the bill came before Parliament again in the next few weeks. The prostitutes tongue reached her ´Minge´ without bending and should been named on the net.
Who Watches The Watchers?
"Corrupt" Judges and New Zealand Police.
By Sam (Tue Mar 5 13:16:51 PST 2002)
Information for "pervert" Judges. Hey! Judge Fisher. Government spies confirming he was on net porn sites during work caught out Judge Fisher. Some "perverts" are half a step below child molesters. 12 year olds and below. Our NZ link does not have the named judges in chambers e-mails.
Readers may wish to forward to their respective courts. Give them a buss at their lunch break. Then in the afternoon they can sentence a pervert to 20 years etc.
For Judge Fisher. teenmaiden.com a pervert lesbianbordello.com purtiansex.com cybererotica.com beaverlicking.com fantasticfacials.com teengoddess.com adult-services. net tokyobitches.com femalecelebrities.com nightsurf.com match.com iwantnetsex.com
Some 35 years back Betty Palmer then 15 years 10 months, was before the court to give evidence against "Arthur" for carnal knowledge. She did not lay a complaint. The police were just snooping. I guess the police asked if ´Arthur´ was pumping her. Two male strangers in town, what are they up to. Betty was a hostile witness. The charge tossed out of court. NZ then with ´corrupt´ police. The lawyer was a Mr Drake. 2002-03-01 22:33:39.09
nhs_boy 19/M/UK 2002-02-28 10:37:17.69 To be honest, I think that kiddie-sex offenders should be locked up until thoroughly rehabilitated, but if you´re not going to lock them up, you´ve got to keep them anonymous, or you´re just effectively passing a life sentence on them ,in that they´ll never be able to get a job again, move to a decent neighbourhood, or even perhaps survive very long if the nation´s tabloids get in on the act. So like, I say, 10-20 years in prison, or a fine and anonymity. Nothing in between is anything like justice, it is just another form of torture.
TO SOME DOG ANY DOG WILL DO.
By VICTOR. Saturday April 20, 2002 at 03:21 AM
New Zealand PM.
by victor-hacker_666 Sat Mar 9 10:17:12 PST 2002.
THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY NOTHING TO UNCOVER? December 2001.
IF I HAD NOT GONE INTO POLITICS, I WOULD NOT HAVE MARRIED.
New Zealands Prime Minister Helen Clark cannot even use her married name has revealed her marriage is a necessary evil, which would help put an end to rumours she was a barren lesbian, according to a newly published biography. Clark, 51 viewed as one of the most popular leaders the country has had, is married to public health academic Dr Peter Davis, The austere states woman has rarely let people see into her personal life. Friend and adviser Brian Edwards a pot smoker from way back has been allowed access for the biography.
Helen: Portrait of a Prime Minister, which has hit the Shelves. Clark, Labour Prime Minister since 1999, has been a major player in political life here since winning AucklanDs Mount Albert electorate in 1981. Edwards notes that even winning the party nomination had been a major achievement as she had been hampered by rumours that she was a lesbian.
It was a difficult campaign,said Clark in the book. As a single woman, I was really hammered. I was accused of being a lesbian, of living in a commune, having friends who were Trotskyites and gays, of being unstable and unable to settle to anything.
New in parliament, she remembers one of her own partys senior members referred to her as a barren lesbian and claimed that Davis was also gay. There were rumours, Edwards writes, that her real lover was Catherine Tizard, who later becomes governor-general. Senior party officials finally prevailed on her and Davis, who expressed indifference to the ceremony, to marry.
I didnt mind one way or the other too much, he told Edwards, but I dont think Helen was too keen. We were involved in this larger game of politics. Helen is strong willed and her whole life has required her to bend that will at certain times. In these things, I go along with Helen. If Helen wants to do it, Ill do it.
Clark said she cried over getting married, calling it a necessary evil.
The rival Right Wing National Party continues to push rumours over the marriage, she said.
Theyre relentlessly, personally nasty. The one thing I hate is the National Party. Note no mention she hates sex. I think they are loathsome people. I do.
On the 1999 elections, her then rival, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, was illustrated as a mother-of- two.
Clarks lack of children was made into an issue. I understand this is the government that was to expunge criminal records for minor convictions after 20 good years. Never ever trust any Politician, but watch what they do. Comment: To some dog any dog will do, even marring a future Prime Minister.
pm@ministers.govt.nz Never ever, trust any politicians but watch they do.
Topic: JUST THERE FINEST MEN.
Corrupt Police.
11/13/01 7:11 PM EST
Sex-Attack constable Brian Scott aged 30 to be held in Custody. He had a woman cock suck him. A police officer was found guilty of two sex-attack charges and was acquitted on several more. This means a rat shit jury. A shaken Scott was led away after being remanded in custody until next month for sentencing. Mr. Scott will be able to work out with those be help put away. Supporters, including family members-some reduced to tears by the verdict. Tears would irrigate their eyes and save the cost of eye drops. The names Brian, Maurice, Michael, appear to slant towards criminal such types. New Zealand and Australia operates on criminality at all levels. Judges come from those who cannot make it in private practice. His lawyers will look for a soft sentencing judge.
Topic: QUEENSLAND. Corrupt Australian Police.
11/13 /01 7:13 PM EST.
A police officer before the court after allegedly trying to induce a couple to give their pubic hair so they could become police informants. There are 41 frauds, assault and sex related charges. Does not need to report to the police on a regular basis.
http://www.airnz.co.nz http://www.mrwakeup.com/
http://www.equalitynow.org http://www.orca-live.net/
New Zealand P.M. IS JUST A "FAKE."
by VICTOR. 11:30am Sat Apr 20 ´02
Henry van Dijk
Clark´s victim at home in the world of art fakes
20.04.2002
Arts editor LINDA HERRICK looks into the history of the man who bought the PM´s fake.
Henry van Dijk, the man who has made international headlines over his "Helen Clark painting, is no stranger to the fine art of fakery. In the late 1990s, he ran a business in Auckland importing resin replicas of ancient artefacts. In an interview with the Herald on February 12, 1997, he said: "There is a huge market in copies. And there are a lot of people who can paint well - but not many who paint well out of their own imagination and mind."
In 1999, Mr van Dijk paid $1000 for a painting signed by Helen Clark, then Opposition Leader, at a charity auction. He has sent it back into auction after discovering it was the work of Lauren Fouhy, a friend of one of the Prime Minister´s staff. The revelation of the "fake Clark" has featured in newspapers and television news bulletins worldwide, causing the Prime Minister huge embarrassment.
"I´ve had a lot of publicity over the past week and I´m going to work it out right through to the end," says Mr van Dijk, a former naturopath who runs a water purification business among other ventures and describes himself as a "passionate animal protector, activist, and welfarist. He imported the replica Greek and Egyptian artefacts and antiquities into New Zealand from 1996 to 1999, buying them from a Dutch archaeologist in Germany who cast the pieces in resin then painted, chipped and dented them to look like the real thing.
Items such as a head of Hippocrates sold for $740.
He insists there is a difference between that practice and Helen Clark´s charitable efforts. "When I deal in replicas I know it´s a replica and we tell people." He admits that the publicity has been a bonus for him. He is writing a self-help manual "for resingled people, who want to be recycled,which he intends to publish himself.
"It´s a worldwide book - New Zealand is going to be peanuts ...I was in the Dutch papers and I´ve been on the BBC twice. I haven´t done too badly out of this. It´s fun to me. I´m giving the politicians the message they can´t get away with dishonesty."
Mr van Dijk says he has an art retail diploma gained in 1984 in the Netherlands. He says the three-year diploma is a standard professional document required for any retailer in that country. He came to New Zealand in 1968 aged 20 and worked as marketing manager for Watties until 1971. He returned to the Netherlands in 1973 and came back to New Zealand in 1987. Mr van Dijk said he did not buy the Clark painting because he liked it but as an investment "because of the name only.
"It could have been any kind of painting. Helen Clark was up-and-coming in politics, had been in politics a long time, who became Prime Minister ... The reason I´m getting as much mileage out of this as possible is I feel we should give them [politicians] a hard time if they´ve been lying and cheating."
Ironically, Mr van Dijk said his father, an art collector, was approached during World War II by the famous Dutch faker of Vermeers, Han van Meegeren, and asked to accept a painting in return for five loaves of bread. "He refused the work because it was a forgery but gave van Meegeren the bread. But after the war, you know what? That same work sold for around $300,000."
MUST BE AN ELECTION YEAR.
By VICTOR. 11:39am Sat Apr 20 ´02
Beneficiaries to get $47m tax compo
20 April 2002
Beneficiaries will be paid an extra $47 million during the next four years to compensate for inflation fuelled by petrol tax hikes.
Treasury papers obtained under the Official Information Act show taxpayers will fork out the money to "effectively exempt" beneficiaries from the tax, ACT list MP Penny Webster says. The papers show planned benefit increases of $4.5 million for 2002-03, $18.6 million for 2003-04, $16.4 million for 2004-05 and $7.3 million in 2005-06 to meet a rise in the consumer price index as a result of petrol tax increases. Benefits normally rise once a year based on rises in the index. Mrs Webster said yesterday that it was unfair that taxpayers had to effectively pay twice.
"At the end of the day, its people who are working hard and paying for those that aren´t working. Essentially, the rest of New Zealand is expected to confront the reality of this tax hike while beneficiaries will receive special treatment," Mrs Webster said.
The Government was creating a "wide gap" between those who added to society and those who took from it, she said. Downtown Community Ministry director Kevin Hackwell said Mrs Webster was basically saying the poor should get poorer instead of receiving some help.
"So while everyone else is working and getting pay increases and things like tax breaks, people on benefits shouldn´t get an increase to deal with price rises?"
Mr Hackwell was angry that Mrs Webster thought beneficiaries didn´t add to society because they weren´t working. "The idea that somehow they are second-class citizens is actually quite disturbing."
He said beneficiaries had to pay the same for petrol as anyone else and were taxed on their benefits. Minister of Social Services Steve Maharey said yesterday that Mrs Webster´s remarks were nonsense and showed that ACT didn´t understand how the Government´s accounts worked.
"This is simply a provision, not actual spending, made in the government accounts to allow Treasury benefit forecasts to include the anticipated impact of increased petrol taxes on the consumer price index," Mr Maharey said. "A simple comparison between those in the labour market and those on benefits would quickly reveal that being in work is far preferable to being on welfare.
"Workers have been obtaining wage settlements in advance of the CPI, whereas beneficiaries receive an annual consumer price index adjustment to their benefit to ensure that it keeps its value."
SHADY Helen Clark. Clark an "ALIAS."
By VICTOR. Saturday April 20, 2002 at 03:29 AM
Dialogue: Clark´s deception reveals deep, abiding cynicism
By JOHN ROUGHAN
It really was a shocker. As my wife remarked after reading the story, it´s not as if she simply put her name on somebody else´s painting, she actually commissioned it.
This was no momentary lapse of judgment; it was a deliberate, patterned response to a request for personal work. When a second bogus Helen Clark turned up this week, the Prime Minister admitted she had probably done it half a dozen times. For all that, I don´t believe she was, or is, intentionally dishonest. Rather, she honestly believed dishonesty was standard practice. I suspect we are dealing not so much with deceit as something possibly just as bad for someone in that position - a deeply ingrained, all-pervasive cynicism.
When she said that "other politicians have done it" and "no one takes these things very seriously" I am sure she believed it. Should she come across a fairly competent piece in a charity sale I can hear a dry chuckle and a muttered comment, "I wonder who really did that?"
Cynicism is highly contagious. Even now, there are probably people who have never had reason to doubt the authenticity of celebrities´ contributions, yet wonder whether Helen Clark was right.
Well, the organisation she was trying to help was surprised to learn this week how she had gone about it. And art auctioneer Dunbar Sloane told the Herald that in 35 years he had never known a celebrity offering not to be genuine. No other politician, past or present, has come forth to support Helen Clark´s contention that others have done what she did.
You can marshal all the evidence available and still cynicism has an easy, poisonous plausibility. The only good antidote, I find, is to consider what cynics say about something you know. They have plenty to say about what happens in my industry and invariably they are wrong.
Cynicism is dangerous in a Prime Minister, particularly an absolutist leader like this one, not so much because it is unattractive but because it breeds assumptions that can lead the Government astray. What part it played, we might now wonder, in its failure to take the Singapore Airlines offer for Air New Zealand-Ansett at face value last year. Some interesting material has emerged on that subject over the past week or two. I suspect Helen Clark is tired of reading that she is intelligent. When did journalists become arbiters of intelligence? The answer, possibly, is when they found themselves reporting a Prime Minister who thinks and speaks much as they do.
Like them, Helen Clark is a graduate of the liberal arts and retains a set of interests, values, viewpoints, and inhibitions they share. She has a candour that is appealing and a complete lack of airs, which is almost unprecedented in Prime Ministers of my observation. She seems to be largely without conceit and suffers from no sense of self-importance. But that impression may have to be altered after this phoney art business.
Dunbar Sloane said the contributions of political leaders to charity art auctions were usually simple concoctions. "You don´t buy it as investment art but as a bit of fun ...
Why didn´t Helen Clark enter the exercise in that spirit? Partly, she says, because she was too busy, and because she is no good at it. She said she suspected the painting done in her name was awful. "If I´d done it myself it would have been equally awful if not more awful." On radio, I think she was more candid, conceding she cannot draw to save herself.
But the point is, her ability should not have mattered. I think a fierce ego played its part in her downfall, too. She could not bring herself to sit down one Saturday and smear some paint on the framed paper the animal welfare group had given her, lest the result was embarrassing. She could not even bring herself to enter the "five-minute doodles" to be auctioned by Ponsonby School. Somebody on her staff did a quick sketch of the Beehive and she signed it. That fooled the school, the auctioneer, and the person who paid $1300 in good faith.
All of this happened when she was Opposition leader. She is an immeasurably more secure personality now. But I wonder even now whether she really recognises the error, or regrets the political embarrassment.
She has suspended several ministers merely for political embarrassment. Even unproven accusations, she argued, could affect their credibility in their particular portfolio. She would have sacked any other Minister of Arts, Culture, and Heritage by now. Perhaps she imagines a lack of personal artistic talent is somehow unbecoming in that role. If so, she should be told that in all the arts, plagiarism is infinitely worse.
A few weeks ago, I attended a dinner at which the University of Auckland recognised "distinguished alumni" such as Human Rights Commissioner Roslyn Noonan and Film Commission chief executive Ruth Harley. Dr Harley, I think it was, gave an acceptance speech glowing with gratitude to "Helen" for at last giving the arts a sense of pride and value and a Prime Minister who believed in them. I wonder how the creative community feels now.
The mark of intelligence, since we are now the arbiters of it, is to know the limits of your knowledge. And, beyond that, to avoid the pitfalls of ego and cynicism.
We are led, I think, by somebody who usually knows her limitations but has to prove herself large enough to let them be exposed for public amusement.
JUST CROOKS.
by VICTOR. Saturday April 20, 2002 at 03:35 AM
SATURDAY, 20 APRIL 2002
N A T I O N A L. N E W S. S T O R Y
Ministers´ spouses notch up air miles.
20 April 2002 Jet-setting partners of Government ministers spent $220,000 of taxpayer money flying around New Zealand last year.
Deputy Prime Minister Jim Andersons wife, Carole, was the most well travelled spouse, using more taxpayer money free air travel than many of her husband´s supporters earned.
Mrs Anderton´s $26,382 bill had helped keep her at her husband´s side, a spokesman for Mr Anderton said yesterday. "They are very close and they travel a lot together . . . It is entirely reasonable and acceptable and it´s one way of maintaining a strong family relationship." Figures obtained by National MP John Luxton show that other big spenders included Conservation Minister Sandra Lee´s partner Anaru Vercoe, who had $25,347 of flights, and Police Minister George Hawkins´s wife, Jan, who had $19,700 of flights.
A spokesman for Ms Lee said Mr Vercoe accompanied her to remote parts of New Zealand, which she visited for the conservation portfolio. Mr and Mrs Hawkins had the highest combined domestic travel costs of any ministerial couple. Between them, they spent $96,375. Mr Hawkins ran up $76,675 of that - significantly more than any other minister did. A spokeswoman for Mr Hawkins said he travelled a lot to visit police and fire fighters in the provinces. He would not comment on his wife´s travel, she said.
Judith Tizard - Associate Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister and the Minister Responsible for Auckland Issues - had the second-highest domestic travel bill of any minister, $68,989.
A spokeswoman for Ms Tizard said she had been promoting arts and culture at events around New Zealand. The total domestic travel bill for ministers was $1.04 million. Prime Minister Helen Clark spent $58,782 on domestic flights. MPs and their spouses are entitled to free flights for all domestic travel, unless spouses are travelling for business. MPs without spouses can nominate a companion for a limited number of return flights. Attorney-General Margaret Wilson was the only minister without a spouse or nominated companion. Figures obtained by Mr Luxton also show that Miss Clark spent $400,145 on international travel last year.
Highflying spouses:
Jim Anderton (Carole Anderton) $26,382
Sandra Lee (Anaru Verco) $25,347
George Hawkins (Jan Hawkins) $19,700
Annette King (Ray Lind) $15,644
Trevor Mallard (Stephanie Mallard) $14,381
Mark Burton (Carol Burton) $14,119
Tariana Turia (Hori Turia) $14,098
Lianne Dalziel (Rod Davidson) $13,251
Ruth Dyson (Martin Ward) $11,655
Jim Sutton (Trish Ranstead) $11,127
OBSERVATION. Mr. Anderton daughter killed her self. The public will elect any thing.
JUST A FURTHER COVER UP.
By VICTOR. 12:42pm Sat Apr 20 ´02
SUNDAY, 21 APRIL 2002
W A I K A T O S T O R Y
Police coy on acquitted ex-cop´s job chances
20 April 2002
Police are not sure if they will give a former policeman his job back, after he was found not guilty of rape and assault at a retrial at the High Court in Rotorua yesterday.
A jury took just over three hours to find former Mangakino senior police constable Colin McLean not guilty of assaulting and raping a woman on December 22, 1997.
Bay of Plenty district commander Superintendent Gary Smith said police would take legal and employment advice over any request from Mr McLean to be reinstated.
McLean was accused of raping a woman at her mother´s home in Tokoroa and, on another occasion, slapping her. After the six-man, six-woman jury´s verdict was read, the 38-year-old refused to comment about the case or future with the police.
"I need to spend some time with my family," he said. Lawyer Murray McKechnie said he needed a few days to let "the dust settle.
"He is pleased with the outcome and finally being cleared after such a long time, and after a great many things were said against him by police authorities," Mr McKechnie said. "The minister of police (George Hawkins) said things entirely inappropriate, and he owes Mr McLean an apology."
In February 2000, McLean was arrested on rape and assault charges relating to three women between 1994 and 1999. He was acquitted on the first charge, the third was dismissed, and on May 11 last year, he was convicted and sentenced to five years´ jail in relation to the other complaint.
The Appeal Court quashed the convictions, on grounds, which were suppressed.
NEW ZEALAND NEWS.GOOD RIDDANCE TO RUBBISH. (english)
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by VICTOR. 1:55pm Sun Apr 21 ´02
Stephen Tresidder resigned from the police yesterday.
Tangled in a web of deceit. 18.04.2002
Lying to protect a friend ruined Stephen Tresidder´s police career. JO-MARIE BROWN tells how.
Sergeant Stephen Tresidder´s luck began to run out three years ago today when he was caught camping in the snow on a sprawling, privately owned central North Island farm.
He and longtime friend Michael Lourie had been poaching deer on Ngamatea Station for more than 10 years and had vowed to continue until they were caught.
That Sunday morning in April 1999, they were. Their footprints were spotted in the mud by a professional guide, one of a handful of people permitted to be in the area.
But instead of being honest with the landowners, the police sergeant, who had been in the force for more than 13 years, began to lie - first about his personal details, and later in front of a judge.
Lying to a stranger about your identity is one thing. Lying on oath in court is quite another. Tresidder, 40, resigned yesterday after becoming what police headquarters says is the first New Zealand policeman to be convicted of perjury.
Normally friendly and relaxed, he insisted at his trial that he was innocent. But his rapid blinking and tense shoulders suggested that he knew he had dug himself a hole too deep to get out of.
Tresidder, who spent seven years as a constable in Gisborne before transferring to Whakatane in 1992, had known his hunting pal Lourie for 25 years.
On April 15, 1999, he drove from Whakatane to Ngamatea Station, collecting Lourie from his Rotorua home on the way. They had taken annual leave and intended to spend up to two weeks hunting in the area where New Zealand´s finest herd of wild sika deer can be found. Their trip coincided with the sika "roar", or mating season, when stags become less cautious and move into the open where they are easier to shoot.
Having driven along the Napier-Taihape road, they left Tresidder´s white Toyota Landcruiser at Springvale Bridge, near Ngamatea´s southern boundary. A couple of Rod & Rifle magazines were left open at trout articles on the back seat to create the impression that the owner had come to fish the Rangitikei River.
But the ruse did not fool professional hunting guide Adrian Moody. He phoned Bruce Bates - the man with exclusive hunting rights to Ngamatea - to alert him that poachers were about. Bates, whose wife part-owned the station, ran a guiding business on Ngamatea and was sick of poachers cutting fences, leaving gates open and shooting his stock. He left his Napier orchard immediately and drove to Ngamatea.
On that bitterly cold Sunday morning, Bates and his brother-in-law Nathan Apatu, also a part-owner, climbed up a prominent hill.
Through binoculars, they spotted a man, also with binoculars, "glassing" or scanning the bush. They said a rifle was slung over his shoulder.
"He was just standing, glassing, looking into the gullies below. The stags were roaring that morning, you could hear them," Bates said. "You think of [Ngamatea] as your own and it gives you a real fright to see someone there." Following the trespassers´ footprints and voices, a nervous Bates and Apatu confronted them at their camp.
"I thought I´d just try and keep it calm and act like another hunter," Bates said. "I wanted to find out as much as I could while it was going well."
Tresidder and Lourie chatted happily to the new arrivals, discussing the weather, how their hunt was going and how long they had been coming to Ngamatea.
Bates even congratulated Lourie when he boasted about having shot one of New Zealand´s top trophy sika heads on the station a few years before. He then told them Apatu´s family owned the property - "Do you gentlemen realise you´re poaching?"
A tense situation developed. Bates asked to see their gun licences as he thought it would be a quick way to find out their names and addresses.
The hunters searched their packs but could not produce them.
Bates then asked Tresidder and Lourie to hand over their guns.
"At that stage Mr Tresidder became very abrupt and short ... He took a step forward at that stage and said, ´You´re not taking our rifles, you can´t have them´."
Bates, knowing that legally the two men did not have to surrender the guns, dropped the issue. Instead he asked for their names and addresses to issue a trespass notice.
Tresidder said he was Stephen Johns, of 20 Arawa Rd, Whakatane. Lourie claimed to be John Banks, of 10 Kiwi St, Whakatane.
Both men were then told to leave.
On the Monday, Bates went to the Havelock North police station to make a complaint about unlawful hunting. Not surprisingly, the name Bates had written on the trespass notices did not check out, but the registration of the Landcruiser parked at Springvale Bridge came back as belonging to Stephen Tresidder, care of Whakatane police station.
Rotorua crime manager Detective Inspector Graham Bell was brought in to interview Tresidder, who admitted having been on Ngamatea but refused to name his companion.
Both Tresidder and police investigating Bates´ complaint mistakenly believed that any charge of unlawful hunting had to be laid within six months.
Six months went by, and Tresidder finally named Lourie as his companion. While Tresidder was convicted in November 1999 of giving a false name and address (police dropped a charge of unlawful hunting), Lourie seemed to have escaped punishment.
An angry Bates decided to take a private case against Lourie, having discovered that the window for prosecution was in fact 12 months, not six.
Lourie, who now lives at Pukehina Beach and runs his own security business, defended himself at the hearing in the Taihape District Court in July 2000 and called Tresidder as a witness. Taking the Bible in his right hand, Tresidder swore to "tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth".
He told Judge Grant Fraser that he and Lourie had spent only one night, not three, on Ngamatea and were intending merely to pass through on their way to hunt what he believed was Department of Conservation land on the west side of the Rangitikei River.
The only reason they had stopped, he said, was because it had started snowing and it was dangerous to walk in the dark.
He strongly denied that they had any firearms with them on Ngamatea, saying they were hidden in waterproof bags on the land (which was owned by the Army, not DoC) where they were heading to collect them.
"Because I have some knowledge of the law," Tresidder explained, "I knew that if we ever got caught walking across Ngamatea Station with firearms you are deemed to be illegally hunting by simple possession.
"So therefore we leave our firearms there so if we ever do get caught walking across Ngamatea Station, which we did on this particular occasion, we would merely be told to leave. We were merely trespassers," he told the Taihape court. Tresidder explained that he gave a false address because Bates was insinuating that he and Lourie were cutting fences and shooting stock and he did not want to be blamed for something he had not done.
He went on to tell Judge Fraser, and later the jury at his perjury trial in Tauranga, that he had given his correct name, Stephen Tresidder. "I actually recall giving him my full name ... He may not have heard me because my full name is Stephen John Tresidder."
It was at this point in the Taihape hearing that things started to go wrong. Bates´ lawyer and Judge Fraser began to pick holes in the policeman´s story.
Why had they set off into Ngamatea in the first place if it was snowing? Why had Tresidder admitted giving a false name if he now denied it? Why weren´t they carrying rifles if they were on a hunting trip?
Tresidder admitted being "stupid", but Judge Fraser thought it was more than that and declared him not a credible witness. He convicted Lourie of unlawful hunting and giving false particulars.
When senior members of the police heard of Tresidder´s testimony, a perjury investigation began. At Tresidder´s perjury trial in the Tauranga District Court, defence lawyer John Haigh, QC, tried to argue that while the policeman had got things wrong when testifying in the earlier trial, he had not deliberately misled the court.
But Crown prosecutor John McDonald called Lourie to testify that he and Tresidder had in fact camped on Ngamatea for three nights before they were caught.
The weather was initially fine and clear, meaning they could have walked straight through Ngamatea. Instead they allegedly slept all day Friday and Saturday, with snow beginning to fall on Saturday night.
Lourie also admitted that they had firearms with them on the station, saying they were hidden 120m from their camp in a crevice.
"The plan was to pick up our rifles, carry on through and hunt the Rangitikei River," Lourie said, having pointed out the area on a map which included Ngamatea Station.
The Army land Tresidder referred to was about 7km from where they were caught.
Bates testified that the area known as White´s Valley, where Tresidder and Lourie were found, was home to one of the world´s finest herds of wild sika deer. The hill on which they had happened to pitch their tents was "the best spot on the farm with the highest density of animals". "If you´re a hunter, you´ve died and gone to heaven," he said. Although Tresidder and Lourie had not shot any deer on the property for a number of years, their illegal presence on Ngamatea had now led to the policeman´s conviction for perjury.
His attempt to provide an innocent explanation to help out a friend has backfired badly. Colleagues and friends, who had testified to Tresidder´s exemplary character, were shocked by the verdict.
"I found him honest, hard-working. I always thought he was a really dedicated policeman," said retired Detective Sergeant Ian Robson.
But as prosecutor John McDonald pointed out to the jury, Tresidder was "not of such good character that even on his own evidence, he´s not above bending the law. He trespassed [and] he stored guns where he wasn´t supposed to."
But Tresidder´s partner, Karmann Winn, maintains he told the truth in Taihape.
"I feel sorry for every New Zealand police officer because if that´s the case then every police officer in New Zealand should be guilty of perjury because everybody makes mistakes," she said.
"Everybody."
Perjury policeman resigns from force
18.04.2002
By JO-MARIE BROWN
The first policeman known to be convicted in New Zealand for perjury has quit his job before police could sack him.
Former Whakatane police Sergeant Stephen John Tresidder resigned yesterday morning, having been found guilty of perjury by a jury in the Tauranga District Court the night before. The Bay of Plenty District Commander, Superintendent Gary Smith, said that by quitting Tresidder would avoid appearing before the police disciplinary tribunal, which would have decided whether to fire him.
"This is the first time in official memory that a police officer has been convicted of perjury," said Mr Smith.
"Thankfully this is an isolated case and we are pleased that justice has been done." Tresidder was found to have lied to a district court judge in Taihape in July 2000 while giving evidence on behalf of a long-time friend, Michael Lourie, who was convicted of unlawful hunting.
The two men had been caught trespassing on Ngamatea Station off the Napier-Taihape highway, home to New Zealand´s finest herd of wild sika deer, in April 1999.
Tresidder will be sentenced by Judge Peter Rollo on April 30. Mr Smith said it was a sad day for police when an officer was convicted of a criminal offence because it eroded public confidence.
"It is critically important to the integrity of the organisation that officers who breach the trust associated with their oath of office are appropriately dealt with," he said.
Tresidder, 40, would receive his superannuation entitlement - an amount that would depend on how much of his salary he had put into the fund during his 16-year career.
OBSERVATION: The first they have caught. The police are basically shysters and commit perjury to gain a conviction. Their job may depend on it. The law is set up by governments to protect what is known as the big boys. The law is just a big money making racket.
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OUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA.
Hanson in court accused of election fraud
April 22 2002
AAP
Prosecutors today changed electoral fraud charges against former One Nation president Pauline Hanson on the opening day of a Brisbane Magistrates Court committal hearing with party co-founder David Ettridge.
Crown Prosecutor Brendan Campbell alleged Hanson had dishonestly induced Queensland Electoral commissioner Des O´Shea to register One Nation in 1997.
The charge replaced a previous charge of fraudulently registering the party with Ettridge, who is now facing that charge alone.
Hanson´s solicitor Chris Nyst didn´t oppose the charge change but Ettridge, who is representing himself, accused the Crown of moving goal posts at the last minute.
"They are moving the goal posts and not giving me time to prepare," the Sydney businessman said after spending three months researching his defence.
Hanson is facing three charges under the Queensland Electoral Act including two charges of dishonestly obtaining $498,637 in electoral funding, which has already been paid back.
Hanson, who quit as One Nation leader in January, arrived at court in a black sleeveless dress and appeared thinner and looked to be fighting back tears as she faced a crowd of cheering supporters outside the court building.
The hearing was finally underway after being moved three times to accommodate the supporters who converged for the hearing from Queensland and New South Wales.
Mr Campbell delivered a brief opening address to Brisbane Magistrate Michael Halliday to summarise the crown case.
He told the hearing the crown centred on the allegation that Ettridge used names from a supporters´ movement to illegally register the party in Queensland and Hanson presented the application to the Electoral Commission.
The case is expected to last four weeks.
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