Mr Douglas Weal and Kenneth Miller were the star witnesses in the police case against Takapuna bomb plot accused Alan Thomas. In the email below, sent by Weal to one of his contacts in the New Zealand police force he...
As the old saying goes; “it’s nice to put a face to a name” however, it’s even better if you can put a face to those who would’ve otherwise been reluctant to cough with the evidence. Our happy camper and intrepid...
According to the New Zealand Herald Jenni McManus has left Fairfax, taking a big step down in a sudden, we would hold inevitable, career change. A one time associate at the Independent, Vincent Heeringa, is quoted by Stop Press NZ According to Heeringa, “I...
The Price fixing scandal of 3 June 1993 was not the only corrupt practice at the nouveau riche Colin Giltrap’s Giltrap City Toyota in the mid 1990’s, there was another, it however never saw the light of day, buried in almost surreal circumstances – In a...
Laudafinem have managed to locate the dangerous and corrupt Detective Malcolm John Thomas, ex – Gisborne CIB – In a strange irony Thomas is not only fond of planting evidence he’s also fond of planting exotic flora. Thomas lives in...
On Saturday March 18,1989 an article appeared in the Gisborne Herald penned by none other than Jenni McManus’s friend and co-conspirator Marianne Spence. Spence was reporting on the case of Gisborne Glass verses the Brothers: A JUDGEMENT in favour of...
The Truth, 1984 Cops guilty of accessing Wanganui computer records By Russell Anderson Cops can use top security Wanganui Computer to help themselves fight a private prosecution says a top policeman. In some circumstances says it is alright for cops...
Update 19/01/2012: Fairfax, New Zealand, bad apples and the race to the bottom of the barrel. Phil Kitchin likes the term investigative journalist and models himself on the likes of Warren Berryman, (may God rest his soul…although we seriously doubt it)....
Phil Kitchen, as described by Winston Peters, is a lying wanker. We are reluctant to support Winston Peters on most things but unfortunately on his description of Kitchen he is right on the money. Now before we go to much...
A couple of weeks ago whilst trawling archived news items we came across a number of items penned by award winning journalist Phil Kitchen. Kitchen is obviously quite a duplicitous personality, the anomaly? On the one hand he has written an account...