Back in 2005 a young man was quietly convicted and sentenced in a central Otago court for traffic offences he had not committed. Not only had he not committed the offences he’d been accused of, but police all the way...
It would seem that the Central Otago cops have been at it again. Team LF have been advised that Clyde resident Chris Wardill has again been arrested by the plods, this time for posting a comment here on laudafinem.com. The Otago Daily...
Last week LF ran a story on the plight of central Otago man Chris Wardill who stands accused of naming a police officer who had name suppression, despite the cop having admitted the serious sexual offences. Since that article was published...
An Alexandra man will appear in the Alexandra district court tomorrow (31/12/2014) at 9.30 am after being charged under section of New Zealands judicial proceedure Act with “Knowingly or recklessly” breaching suppression provisions. A colleague of the cop who pled guilty to...
This morning ex National party member of Parliament Tau Henare made his second court appearance on charges of having breached the name suppresion granted to his fellow Kiwi ex-politician, has-been rugby player and Central Otago resident Grahame Thorne. The New Zealand mainstream...
Arguably one of Mahatma Gandhi’s most enduring wisdoms was that civil disobedience demanded that right thinking citizens, true democrats, do their utmost to disobey apparently unshakable laws that are inequitable or just plain evil; bad for justice, bad for democracy, bad for...
Last evening LF’s post outing Grahame Thorne as the well-known Kiwi with name suppression received an inordinately high level of traffic. LF went looking for the cause of the sudden spike and found a small Fairfax article that had been posted at around 2100...
Fairfax New Zealand ran a piece late this afternoon covering yet another sex offender that has apparently walked away scott free, complete with permanent name suppression thrown in to seal the deal. It would seem that New Zealand’s local MSM have lost...
LF has over the past three years run a number of stories on New Zealand’s very dodgy Real Estate Agents Authority (REAA). Our last post was on the plight of Mr William Hume (see also related articles below) who had...
Another corrupt senior cop, thick as two short planks, Otago police districts Assistant Commander, Inspector Andrew Burns Yet another case of violent police behaviour has been swept under the carpet and by the looks of things New Zealand’s mainstream media...