Bradley Keith Shipton (1958-2024) was released on parole from Wanganui prison in November 2008 after serving three years and five months of his 81/2 years sentence for the pack rape of a 20-year-old wo...
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5/2/2024
Bradley Keith Shipton (1958-2024) was released on parole from Wanganui prison in November 2008 after serving three years and five months of his 81/2 years sentence for the pack rape of a 20-year-old wo...
5/2/2024
In 1913 Henry was sentenced to 10 years in jail for incest. It seems that a child was produced as a result of this as in 1924 Henry was wanted for failing to maintain Elsie Joyce Coles, his daughter, w...
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4/14/2024
In 1913 Henry was sentenced to 10 years in jail for incest. It seems that a child was produced as a result of this as in 1924 Henry was wanted for failing to maintain Elsie Joyce Coles, his daughter, w...
4/14/2024
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3/25/2024
Child, Youth and Family says it worked with the family of a 5-year-old child who died after suffering a serious head injury but investigations "did not establish evidence of physical abuse". A man accu...
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3/7/2024
3/7/2024
Child, Youth and Family says it worked with the family of a 5-year-old child who died after suffering a serious head injury but investigations "did not establish evidence of physical abuse". A man accu...
3/7/2024
1914 Ruahine axe murders. On 28 December a young German man, Arthur Rottman, brutally murdered his former employer Joseph McCann, his wife Lucy and their infant son John with an axe. No clear motive em...
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2/29/2024
2/29/2024
1914 Ruahine axe murders. On 28 December a young German man, Arthur Rottman, brutally murdered his former employer Joseph McCann, his wife Lucy and their infant son John with an axe. No clear motive em...
2/29/2024
Succession.... Re Pechar (deceased): Re Grbic (deceased) [I9691 N.Z.L.R.. 574 a man had killed his wife and one of the issues was whether he was entitled to succeed to any property held by him and his ...
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2/29/2024
Succession.... Re Pechar (deceased): Re Grbic (deceased) [I9691 N.Z.L.R.. 574 a man had killed his wife and one of the issues was whether he was entitled to succeed to any property held by him and his ...
2/29/2024
Murderer, hanged at Mt. Crawford Prison
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2/28/2024
Murderer, hanged at Mt. Crawford Prison
2/28/2024
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2/24/2024
21 days after his wife left him Francisco Javier Miranda (aka Frank Hingston) strangled to death his two children Dominique Frances Hingston (aged 6) and Nikkita Hingston (aged 5). He then committed su...
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2/23/2024
21 days after his wife left him Francisco Javier Miranda (aka Frank Hingston) strangled to death his two children Dominique Frances Hingston (aged 6) and Nikkita Hingston (aged 5). He then committed su...
2/23/2024
Coroner raps Sunnyside staff
Date: 2000
Description: Lisa Michelle Hope was stabbed to death by her mentally ill father, Ian Shaun Hope, in December 1998. Hope committed suicide two weeks later while i...
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2/22/2024
Coroner raps Sunnyside staff
Date: 2000
Description: Lisa Michelle Hope was stabbed to death by her mentally ill father, Ian Shaun Hope, in December 1998. Hope committed suicide two weeks later while i...
2/22/2024
Jules Gyula Mikus, 75, was convicted of raping a primary schoolteacher who boarded with him in 1976. Mikus snr was facing 13 charges - including rape, sodomy and indecent assault - for alleged offences...
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2/22/2024
2/22/2024
Jules Gyula Mikus, 75, was convicted of raping a primary schoolteacher who boarded with him in 1976. Mikus snr was facing 13 charges - including rape, sodomy and indecent assault - for alleged offences...
2/22/2024
Jules Mikus abducted, raped and murdered Napier girl Teresa Cormack in 1987. Served time on multiple occasions for other sex offending. In March 1973 he recorded his first criminal conviction - having ...
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2/22/2024
Jules Mikus abducted, raped and murdered Napier girl Teresa Cormack in 1987. Served time on multiple occasions for other sex offending. In March 1973 he recorded his first criminal conviction - having ...
2/22/2024
Conviction for Burglary
27 Aug 1888 • Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Sentence was "5yrs penal servitude."
Source: New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XII, Issue 26, 19 December 1888, Page 242 [ ].
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9/14/2023
Conviction for Burglary
27 Aug 1888 • Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Sentence was "5yrs penal servitude."
Source: New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XII, Issue 26, 19 December 1888, Page 242 [ ].
9/14/2023
Criminal Proceedings Gennaro Nigro , who was found guilty on Saturday of three breaches of tho Bankruptcy Act, waa, this morning sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. The judge remarked that accused ba...
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8/13/2023
8/13/2023
Criminal Proceedings Gennaro Nigro , who was found guilty on Saturday of three breaches of tho Bankruptcy Act, waa, this morning sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. The judge remarked that accused ba...
8/13/2023
Death: New Zealander (3 June 1854, p. 2)
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8/5/2023
Death: New Zealander (3 June 1854, p. 2)
8/5/2023
The sum of £2 2s. each has been awarded to Sergeant James Slattery and Detective James W. Ede, Nelson Police, in recognition of zeal shown by them in the recovery of stolen property and the arrest of P...
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4/27/2023
The sum of £2 2s. each has been awarded to Sergeant James Slattery and Detective James W. Ede, Nelson Police, in recognition of zeal shown by them in the recovery of stolen property and the arrest of P...
4/27/2023
Katie Gardiner beat her twelve-year-old daughter to death with a poker before drowning herself in a nearby stream in 1911.
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3/11/2023
3/11/2023
Katie Gardiner beat her twelve-year-old daughter to death with a poker before drowning herself in a nearby stream in 1911.
3/11/2023
Son of John Plummer (1801-1881) and Sarah Plummer (nee Lowen) (1803-1882). Married Mary Matilda Hirst at Auckland on 21 June 1892, two months before being shot dead by police.
END OF A NOTORIOUS CRIMI...
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11/30/2022
Son of John Plummer (1801-1881) and Sarah Plummer (nee Lowen) (1803-1882). Married Mary Matilda Hirst at Auckland on 21 June 1892, two months before being shot dead by police.
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11/30/2022
DEATH OF MAN, WIFE AND CHILD. COMMENT AT INQUEST. (P.A,) AUCKLAND, Nov. 8. ; “Whether there had been a suicide pact or not, it is quite evident that in the case of the child it was murder. It seems to ...
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11/13/2022
DEATH OF MAN, WIFE AND CHILD. COMMENT AT INQUEST. (P.A,) AUCKLAND, Nov. 8. ; “Whether there had been a suicide pact or not, it is quite evident that in the case of the child it was murder. It seems to ...
11/13/2022
Walter Bolton, a 68-year-old Whanganui farmer, became the last person executed in New Zealand. Convicted for the murder of his wife, Beatrice, he was hanged at Mt Eden prison following a controversial ...
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9/26/2022
Walter Bolton, a 68-year-old Whanganui farmer, became the last person executed in New Zealand. Convicted for the murder of his wife, Beatrice, he was hanged at Mt Eden prison following a controversial ...
9/26/2022