What has become of New Zealand? Has the country, its parliament, its police force and its judicial system hit a new all time low? It would certainly seem so if one was able to join the dots with two news headlines coming...
Former Central Otago policeman senior constable John Clarke was sentenced today for using his police-issued iPhone to video a teenage girl having a shower has had his application for a discharge without conviction declined. Clarke appeared in the Alexandra District Court this...
Clyde man Chris Wardill (above right) was back in court yesterday, as was Central Otago police prosecutor extraordinaire, Sergeant Ian Collin. Sergeant Collins, an old hand in the police’s dark arts seemed to be flummoxed from the get go with his...
Regular readers will be aware of the various other articles that LF has posted over the past two weeks exposing the goings on inside the New Zealand police force, in particular their seriously dysfunctional Central Otago area command. For those...
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...
Over the past two days two news items have surfaced in Fairfax publications, however they certainly did not make headlines as perhaps they should have. The most prominent of the two articles was penned by Kiwi journo Ian Steward. Stewards...
A week ago LF reported on the arrest and charging of central Otago man Christopher Wardill who police allege breached the name suppression order of Central Otago policeman Senior constable John Clarke who has admitted to covertly video recording a naked...
To think that it was only yesterday that police commissioner Mike Bush was advising his fellow New Zealander’s of how the country’s police force had made significant “behind the scenes” changes in the way it did business in 2014 –...
Yesterday mornings New Zealand Herald ran one of the most unabashed pieces of police propaganda that has ever graced the pages of a Kiwi newspaper, and that is a record that sure as hell took some breaking. Whilst Bush has obviously set...