1. On the police website about the fatal shooting in Kakariki Grove on 19 November: they have now charged “five gang associates with murder, and one with being an accessory, in the ongoing homicide investigation in Waikanae.” In our assessment all the indications are this was a drug deal gone wrong.
  2. A local GP, Jared Cook, who was fiddling in the literal sense, has been given 10 months’ home detention for “indecent acts” involving teenage boys. NZ Herald piece