By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Former Auckland barrister Minkai Huang was struck off the New Zealand roll of solicitors and barristers on 26 November 2014, when the NZ Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal found him unfit to practice due to a conviction for theft. On 14 October 2013, Mr Huang pleaded guilty to stealing $9,475,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 1.30 pm on 19 August 2015, Visheshwarajan Reddy was driving his utility in a southerly direction down the Hume Highway close to the Southern Tablelands town of Marulan. The driver was travelling from the Sydney suburb of Leppington to Canberra to visit his children. Five witnesses described… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 9pm on 28 April 2016, Mr Afzal, a shop assistant at the Mini Mart on Victoria Road in Potts Point (pictured) was sitting on a crate out the front of the store smoking a cigarette, when he saw two men wearing face masks approach from across the… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In May 2014, a client referred to as ‘Ms N’ instructed Sydney lawyer Mr Tien Ngoc Do to act on her behalf for the purchase of an interest in a property, the balance of which she already owned. No purchase price had been set at the time. Ms N… Read more »
by Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Between March and October 2016, Mr Rainer Kristensen conducted sexualised chats over social media with ten girls aged between 11 and 15 years old. The offender knew his behaviour was wrong and he deleted the files containing the explicit exchanges after concluding the chats. Mr Kristensen began chatting with… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Just after 3am on 21 March 2015, Waqar Ul-Hassan was driving Muhammad Ijaz, Hashim Manzoor and Mohammed Aslam back to his place on Merrylands Road, after they’d all spent a night at a friend’s house in Styles Place, Merrylands. The Pakistani national, who was residing in Australia on a… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Just after midnight on 8 February 2015, Daniel Bezjak pulled up at the front of a house in Dundas Valley in his white Mitsubishi Lancer. James Button, Christopher Menouhos, Dean Horst and an unidentified man got out of the vehicle and made their way towards the property. Brad Harrison… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim At around 10pm on 28 August 2011, Mr Green and an accomplice broke into the house of Mr Urquhart, the security manager at the Cobar Bowling and Golf Club. The men produced a gun and warned the employee they would “blow him away” if he didn’t answer questions about… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Going back ten years ago, Christopher Comeskey was New Zealand’s most recognisable criminal defence lawyer. He drove a Porsche, rode a Harley-Davidson, collected antiques and was said to eat salmon five days a week. The barrister rose to fame after negotiating the return of 96 war medals, which were stolen from the… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Dylan Gray had quite a week back in mid-August 2015. On the 9th of that month, the 29-year-old attended the Precious Metal Exchange, where he signed a document indicating ownership of three gold pendants and a necklace. He then proceeded to sell the jewellery, despite not owning it at… Read more »
