Articles by Craig Kapitan
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Crime
Brian Tamaki walks free on Covid-19 protest charges
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 2:41pmBrian Tamaki and three others had all charges dismissed after a three-year legal battle. Tamaki faced up to six months in...
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Crime
'It just happened': 17yo murder accused describes moment he stabbed stranger's neck at bus stop
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 8:55pmWarning: This story contains distressing content A 17-year-old murder defendant admitted to killing 24-year-old Epapara...
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Crime
Meth-tainted beer trial: Manslaughter defendant’s kind nature led to tragic mix-up, lawyer says
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 2:24pmHimatjit “Jimmy” Kahlon is on trial for manslaughter after Aiden Sagala died from methamphetamine-tainted beer. Kahlon’s...
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Crime
Polkinghorne trial: 'Vicious circle' of sleep deprivation may have upped suicide risk, expert says
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 9:03pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Pauline Hanna might have been caught in “a vicious circle” in the weeks before her death in...
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Crime
Alibi or evidence tampering? Polkinghorne blood stain scrutinised at murder trial
Monday, 2 September 2024, 9:31pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT After flying from Louisiana to Auckland last year, an American crime scene examination expert...
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Crime
'Friendship' or 'double life'? Polkinghorne jury views intimate messages with tabloid star escort
Monday, 26 August 2024, 8:48pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Madison Ashton – the high-profile Sydney escort often mentioned but not present at the Philip...
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Crime
'Started to feel a nothingness': How Golriz Ghahraman explained shoplifting to judge
Sunday, 28 July 2024, 10:14amGolriz Ghahraman’s political career had just gone down in flames and three separate shoplifting investigations were ongoing...
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Crime
Airport baggage handler admits he was part of crime syndicate accused of $50m meth import scheme
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 2:23pmAn Auckland Airport baggage handler has admitted his participation in an organised crime syndicate that was initially suspected...
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National
'Gone from my grip': Man recalls moment partner opened door on motorway and fell to her death
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 3:13pmAn Auckland man accused of the fatal Boxing Day kidnapping of his long-time partner told jurors today that he had twice tried...
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Crime
Brother recounts anger, shame after killing sibling at birthday party
Tuesday, 16 April 2024, 8:58pmLess than two hours after his 19th birthday celebration ended abruptly with the stabbing of his older brother, Patuawa Nathan...
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Crime
Revealed: Suppression lapses for one of five defendants in Head Hunters-related murder case
Wednesday, 10 April 2024, 2:14pmOne of the five men charged with murder after Samuel Curle was left critically injured on a highway near the northern edge...
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National
'Danger to this country': Amateur bomb-maker claimed he had enough explosives to level Sky Tower
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 4:42pmA homeless ex-con and amateur bomb-maker who caused the evacuation of a busy Auckland Central park earlier this year after...
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Crime
Identities revealed of two men accused of killing Head Hunters member in park brawl
Monday, 25 March 2024, 2:18pmTwo co-defendants set to go to trial next year for the alleged murder of patched Head Hunters member Charles Pongi during...
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Crime
Church leader plotted with US rapper, baggage handlers to smuggle $8m of meth into NZ
Wednesday, 14 February 2024, 1:21pmA church youth leader who was found guilty of conspiring with an American rapper and three Air New Zealand baggage handlers...
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Crime
30-year-old says he was lookout, not mastermind as teen bandits committed $146k smash-and-grab
Thursday, 18 January 2024, 6:20pmA 30-year-old who served as a lookout as six teens, some as young as 15, pilfered nearly $150,000 worth of valuables from...
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National
'I've paid a huge price': Anti-vax personality Liz Gunn to get day in court for airport scuffle
Wednesday, 17 January 2024, 3:48pmA one-day trial has been set down for this autumn for controversial media personality Liz Gunn and cameraman Jonathan Clark,...
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Crime
Young mum who stabbed captive man to death over slight was 'gangstress' raised by Mongrel Mob leader
Thursday, 14 December 2023, 2:49pmSecurity was tight in the High Court at Auckland today as a young mother of three who is a member of one of the region’s...
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Crime
Head Hunter found guilty of meth operation based out of bail rehab centre
Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 3:27pmHead Hunters gang member Darren Creelman, with his long history of meth offending, was seen as a standout example of redemption...
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Crime
'You tried to silence me. You failed' radio host who survived attempted murder tells attackers
Tuesday, 28 November 2023, 1:27pmA devoutly religious Auckland resident convicted of orchestrating the nearly successful attempt to murder popular Auckland-based...
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Crime
Teen manslaughter trial: Defendant allegedly attacked another teen on same night
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 3:50pmOne of the two young defendants accused of killing 18-year-old Connor Boyd in central Auckland had attacked another teen...
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Crime
'Absolutely terrified': Partner of Hells Angels member reluctantly testifies at his murder trial
Thursday, 12 October 2023, 9:27pmAs an otherwise jovial Christmas Day spent with family ticked over into the early morning hours of Boxing Day, Andrew Lamositele-Brown’s...
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Crime
Pedestrian hit by Comancheros' car was already screaming in pain. Then the machete came out
Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 4:44pmTwo Comancheros associates who hacked at a rival gang member with a machete and a large hunting knife as he lay on a footpath,...
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Crime
'You were the ringleader': Defence lawyers have go at attempted murderer who left knife at scene
Monday, 18 September 2023, 8:40pmA prison inmate who has admitted participating in the ambush and stabbing attack on controversial radio host Harnek Singh...
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Crime
Charismatic 'thug': Witnesses disparage man accused of trying to orchestrate radio host's murder
Thursday, 7 September 2023, 8:45pmIn 2015, as controversial Auckland radio host Harnek Singh was set to debate a visiting American Sikhism scholar at a local...
