“He (Mr Newdick) was taken to the police station and charged with resisting and obstructing police – charges that were later withdrawn.” Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10850337 Update (10:57 AEDST): No surprises, Police officer acquitted of assault, but what is with the permanent name suppression: “He...
The Bay of Plenty Coroner is calling for the issues around the reporting of suicide to be urgently addressed. Dr Wallace Bain says coroners, the media and the communities of New Zealand need clearer direction. Dr Bain is concerned about...
Lauda Finem has an up coming story which deals with the long term effects of police malfeasance, serious injuries such as CPTSD and PTSD. In the meantime why not read another victims story, the Rawiri Falwasser case, seen though the lens of Greg O’Connor’s behaviour in and around New Zealand Police misconduct...
“Blunder”, “bungle”, “mistaken” and of course “creative” these are the adjectives currently being employed by New Zealand’s apologist media, it’s Government, Police National Headquarters and of course yet another professional apologist the NZPA”s Greg O’Connor in their concerted effort to divert and defuse the...
New Zealand Police have yet again become an international laughing stock, hilarious if it didn’t so often have tragic consequences. This time the police pin-up boy is one Detective Senior Sergeant Al Symond’s (strange that we haven’t heard from the...
Ardent followers of this blog will already have read the post, The Albert Park – A receivership – Conspiracy to falsely accuse for those readers who have only recently joined us here at Laudafinem we will briefly recap. Detectives Malcolm Thomas and Matt Willcox had...
Just who was it that chief Inspector Whiro Ratahi called corrupt (audio below)? Were they the same men responsible for investigating Detective James Kenneth Cunningham’s offences? Why would it have been in their interests to see Cunningham safely escape to...
For many months now Lauda Finem have been researching the whereabouts of Ex-Detective James Kenneth Cunningham (it must be said that the NZ Police force refused to provide information on exactly why it was that Cunningham had left their employ). Until recently...
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...
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...