Edward Gay

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Rachel Moore |Edward Gay |Hamish McNeilly |Sam Sherwood

A 19-year-old Horowhenua man led police on a high speed chase through the middle of Levin after performing a burnout and losing a wheel that almost hit a nearby pedestrian, a court has heard. Taiawhio Wakefield-Taunoa had his restricted license for just one month when police were called to the street racer gathering on Hōkio Beach Rd at midnight on May 25.

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Edward Gay

A survivor of former ACT Party president Timothy Jago says he forgives the man who plied him with alcohol and sexually abused him - on the same day Jago sought to have his convictions overturned. Jago’s case was called at the Court of Appeal on Tuesday where his lawyer challenged parts of the evidence that resulted in the 59-year-old being convicted of indecently assaulting a boy between 12 and 16, and five charges of indecently assaulting a male over 16, at the Auckland District Court in August.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Lloyd Burr |Verity Johnson |Edward Gay

REVIEW: Growing up in the 1980s, I must have watched the first instalment of Star Wars more times than I can count. The release of the digitally remastered VHS in 1994 must have brought the viewing tally into triple figures. Yet at the British Film Institute’s (BFI) Thursday night screening of a 35mm Star Wars release print – shorn of every last upgrade, buff and twiddly addition to have been inflicted on it over the last half-century – I felt like I was watching a completely different film.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Edward Gay

WARNING: This story is about sexual assault and contains details that some people may find distressing. Helen* had agreed to meet Phillip John Alldridge at an abandoned hospital on the edge of Whanganui. She needed new tyres for her car and had arranged to borrow some money. When Helen pulled up, Alldridge was waiting around the corner on a wheelchair ramp.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Edward Gay |Paul Bugeja |Julia Frankel |Jill Lawless

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of surrendering Gibraltar after striking a deal that allows Spain to check passports on the Rock. Britain agreed a deal with Europe and Madrid that would place Spanish border officers at the airport and ports of the British territory as part of a “dual” entry system. Those arriving on the land border will be waved through by British officials to ease border friction as part of the last of the major post-Brexit agreements.