Articles by Craig Kapitan
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Crime
'Not a piece of meat to be cut': Man sentenced for brutal throat slashing of ex-wife
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 12:23pmMitesh Kumar was jailed for eight and a half years for attempted murder after attacking his ex-wife. Kumar lured his ex-wife...
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'You have no remorse': Grieving dad yells at drink driver who killed 14yo boy
Saturday, 2 November 2024, 11:30amTere Moekore was sentenced to three years and two months in prison for killing 14-year-old Kaea Conan Matau while drink driving...
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Polkinghorne's blame game backfires as he returns to court after murder acquittal
Friday, 1 November 2024, 1:44pmDr Philip Polkinghorne was sentenced to 150 hours of community work for methamphetamine charges. Justice Graham Lang rejected...
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Polkinghorne sentenced to 150 hours of community work for meth use
Friday, 1 November 2024, 7:41amWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Retired eye surgeon Philip Polkinghorne, whose appetites for methamphetamine and sex workers...
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Fonterra manager guilty of manslaughter over meth-laced beer death
Friday, 25 October 2024, 2:49pmHimatjit “Jimmy” Kahlon was found guilty of manslaughter and serious drug charges in Auckland. Kahlon gave Aiden Sagala,...
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'Life of nightmares': Crip jailed after terrifying bar robbery, prison escape and inmate stabbing
Sunday, 13 October 2024, 1:47pmJayden Popata has been sentenced to prison for participating in the armed robbery of Wapiti Sports Bar one year ago. The...
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Morbidly obese fraudster tries to use his weight to avoid jail for immigration scam
Saturday, 12 October 2024, 1:58pmRomney Marion Lavea, 55, was sentenced to two years and nine months for unlicensed immigration advice. The hearing marked...
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Transgender refugee seeks to overturn conviction for Posie Parker tomato juice assault
Tuesday, 8 October 2024, 1:51pmA pharmacist and transgender refugee who was convicted last month for pouring tomato juice over the head of anti-transgender...
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Pauline Hanna's GP, scrutinised at Polkinghorne murder trial, keeps name secret for now
Wednesday, 2 October 2024, 12:46pm- Justice Graham Lang has granted continued name suppression for Pauline Hanna’s GP after the Polkinghorne murder trial. -...
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Fugitive jailed for 'gratuitous, shameful' attack that left 90yo man permanently disabled
Sunday, 29 September 2024, 2:32pm- Stanley Iese, 49, was sentenced to eight years and eight months for aggravated robbery of 90-year-old Colin McLean. - Judge...
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Polkinghorne's lawyer warns against 'emotional vigilantism' in final push of suicide theory; summing up now begins
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 9:51amWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Fifty-one days after the murder trial of Remuera eye surgeon Philip Polkinghorne began, the...
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After seven weeks and 80 witnesses, evidence concludes in Polkinghorne murder trial
Friday, 13 September 2024, 3:25pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT After seven straight weeks of testimony involving more than 80 witnesses, both sides have...
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Did Pauline Hanna use phone at 4am before death? Duelling IT experts face off
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 10:52amWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Whether Pauline Hanna’s phone was used to draft two early morning messages on the day of her...
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Deja vu for jurors at Polkinghorne murder trial as familiar faces return to witness box
Wednesday, 11 September 2024, 8:49pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Two weeks ago today, the Crown’s final witness was called in the high-profile murder trial of...
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Live: Polkinghorne murder trial: Crown attacks expert's suicide finding during cross-examination
Friday, 6 September 2024, 2:05pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A respected Australian pathologist hired to testify for the defence in the Philip Polkinghorne...
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Polkinghorne defence expert pans Crown's staged suicide theory: 'Mind boggling to imagine'
Wednesday, 4 September 2024, 9:02pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT An overseas pathology expert brought to New Zealand to testify for the defence in the ongoing...
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Jurors at Philip Polkinghorne murder trial view suppressed suicide research
Tuesday, 3 September 2024, 8:58pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A mechanical engineer who visited the Remuera home of eye surgeon Philip Polkinghorne gave a...
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Polkinghorne's lawyer rips into 'intoxicated' police as defence takes the offensive at murder trial
Friday, 30 August 2024, 10:27amWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Police investigating the death of Pauline Hanna were too “intoxicated” by salacious details...
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Polkinghorne murder trial not sitting today for reasons undisclosed
Thursday, 29 August 2024, 10:12amWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT The trial of Philip Polkinghorne, the Remuera eye surgeon accused of killing his wife and staging...
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Where's Madison? Crown wrapping up, but star witness nowhere to be seen
Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 8:34pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT After four-and-a-half straight weeks of testimony, Crown prosecutors have called their likely...
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Polkinghorne trial: Phone records show aborted 4am mystery messages on day of wife's death
Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 8:54pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT At 4.04 and 4.05am on the same morning that Pauline Hanna was found dead in her Remuera home,...
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'I cannot live if that is the result': Late wife's despair revealed at Polkinghorne murder trial
Friday, 23 August 2024, 9:47amWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Following an argument in March, 2019, in which Philip Polkinghorne told wife Pauline Hanna...
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Jurors peek into Polkinghorne's laptop: Spousal letters and extra-marital sex videos
Thursday, 22 August 2024, 8:41pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Jurors were presented a portrait of a failing marriage today as letters between Dr Philip Polkinghorne...
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Sex tape of Polkinghorne and escort found on surgeon's laptop
Thursday, 22 August 2024, 1:33pmWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT An analysis of Auckland eye surgeon Philip Polkinghorne’s laptop has revealed several exhibits...
