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Aug 25, 2024 | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Dubby Henry |Rachel Maher
Police have revealed more details about the last known movements of the man stabbed outside the Blockhouse Bay Tennis Club. Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to the “gentle” scientist, Stephen Thorpe. The killer is still on the run. Police have revealed a “violent struggle” took place between a scientist and his attacker in a tennis club car park stabbing. They said this morning they are hunting Stephen Thorpe’s attacker who could have been stained with blood after the struggle.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Dubby Henry
Police have revealed more details about the last known movements of the man stabbed outside the Blockhouse Bay Tennis Club. Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to the “gentle” scientist, Stephen Thorpe. The killer is still on the run. Police have revealed a “violent struggle” took place between a scientist and his attacker in a tennis club car park stabbing.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Dubby Henry |Wilhelmina Shrimpton
- One person is dead and six people are missing after a luxury yacht owned by a UK tech tycoon sank off the coast of Sicily. - The yacht Bayesian was owned by Mike Lynch who was only weeks ago given a ‘second life’ after being acquitted in a massive fraud trial. - London-based New Zealander Ayla Ronald and Kiwi citizen James Caulfield, 51, were among the 15 people rescued by a nearby boat.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Katie Oliver |Dubby Henry
Former Shortland Street actor Will Alexander has ended his hunger strike over the war in Gaza after going without food for 19 days. Alexander stopped eating on May 18, and issued three demands - that the Government restart and double its funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), pull Kiwi troops from the Red Sea and stop New Zealand high-tech company Rakon from supplying components for use in Israeli weapons.
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May 5, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Rachel Maher |Dubby Henry |George Block
A Ponsonby Rd worker said he saw a man lying on the footpath after being gunned down in central Auckland last night. The man, who didn’t want to be named,...
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Dubby Henry
Victims' advocate Jillian Hishon has received dozens of allegations of sexual abuse against members of the New Zealand branch of the church known as the Two by Twos. Photo / Supplied A secretive, worldwide Christian sect with no official name or property is being investigated by the FBI, as some ministers and church leaders have been unmasked as sexual abusers of children. Now current and former members in New Zealand want the spotlight to shine on the church here too. Dubby Henry reports.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Adam Pearse |Dubby Henry
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has explained what he meant when he compared Labour’s use of co-governance to “race-based theory”, as seen in Nazi Germany in a State of the Nation speech delivered yesterday. Peters told Three’s AM Show his “Nazi Germany” comments were referring specifically to comments made by Te Pāti Māori regarding Māori genes.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Pierre Nixon |Dubby Henry
A Christchurch townhouse has been gutted and three people are injured following a dramatic house fire last night that saw a child passed out of a top-floor window. Four Fire and Emergency NZ (Fenz) appliances were sent to fight the blaze which was reported shortly before 10pm on Tuesday on New Brighton Rd, opposite The Palms shopping centre in the suburb of Shirley. Fire crews battled the "well involved" fire at an apartment in the Christchurch suburb of Shirley on Tuesday night.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Cherie Howie |Dubby Henry
Four men are in police custody after fleeing almost 100km from the scene of a “violent” home invasion involving firearms in Auckland early this morning, police say. The men were arrested at 2.22am when their vehicle - which had earlier been spiked near Oteha Valley, before its driver continued north “driving at dangerous speeds” - came to a stop near Kaiwaka, said Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Alfred Zhou, of Waitematā CIB.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Cherie Howie |Dubby Henry
A car on its rims in Northland after being spiked multiple times by police following an early incident in Massey. Photo / Hayden WoodwardA group of armed offenders fled police almost 100km to Northland after a reported shooting in the Auckland suburb of Massey overnight. The offenders had earlier entered a house on Akatarawa St and brandished firearms at the occupant, the Herald understands. The police had been alerted to the incident at 1.39am.
