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29-05-2025
- Politics
- The Advertiser
Aust diplomat's husband walks after spitting on woman
A New Zealand court has discharged the husband of an Australian diplomat without convicting him, months after the man pleaded guilty to assault for drunkenly spitting on a teenager during a street altercation on the night of a rugby match in Wellington. The man was granted permanent name suppression. Judge Paul Mabey, presiding at the Wellington District Court, said he didn't accept the man's arguments that the potential harms to him justified the discharge, but the magistrate agreed that his wife's diplomatic career could be curbed by an assault conviction and the publication of his name. The man could be barred from travel abroad to her future postings, the judge said on Thursday, and the family could be split up if the Australian High Commission decided he could not remain in New Zealand to preserve the bilateral relations between the countries. The charges arose after an episode last September after the man attended a rugby match between New Zealand and Australia in the capital. He was drunk when he arrived at Wellington's main nightlife area, where he approached a group of teenagers and became aggressive when they didn't want to engage with him, the judge said. A member of the group punched the man, who responded by spitting on a young woman. He was arrested by police officers who happened to be passing. The case has provoked widespread news coverage in New Zealand and Australia along with mobile phone footage of the man's arrest, in which he verbally abused a police officer and claimed he had diplomatic immunity. He had such immunity, conferred by protocol to the partners of senior envoys to New Zealand, which he later waived voluntarily. He pleaded guilty to New Zealand's lowest level of assault charge in January. It is punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $NZ4000 ($A3700). "For the avoidance of any doubt at all, he is not here to be sentenced for abusing the police or rashly claiming diplomatic immunity," Judge Mabey said. "He was right to say he had that immunity," the judge added. "He was completely stupid to say it at all." But the magistrate said he would discharge the man because of his wife's suggestion that the Australian diplomatic service would be unable to ignore the husband's conviction and the widely-distributed mobile phone video of his arrest when considering her future. "If I were not to suppress his name, his offending would be inextricably linked to his wife and she would suffer considerably," the judge said. He rejected a bid by the man's lawyer to suppress the country his wife represented in New Zealand. A New Zealand court has discharged the husband of an Australian diplomat without convicting him, months after the man pleaded guilty to assault for drunkenly spitting on a teenager during a street altercation on the night of a rugby match in Wellington. The man was granted permanent name suppression. Judge Paul Mabey, presiding at the Wellington District Court, said he didn't accept the man's arguments that the potential harms to him justified the discharge, but the magistrate agreed that his wife's diplomatic career could be curbed by an assault conviction and the publication of his name. The man could be barred from travel abroad to her future postings, the judge said on Thursday, and the family could be split up if the Australian High Commission decided he could not remain in New Zealand to preserve the bilateral relations between the countries. The charges arose after an episode last September after the man attended a rugby match between New Zealand and Australia in the capital. He was drunk when he arrived at Wellington's main nightlife area, where he approached a group of teenagers and became aggressive when they didn't want to engage with him, the judge said. A member of the group punched the man, who responded by spitting on a young woman. He was arrested by police officers who happened to be passing. The case has provoked widespread news coverage in New Zealand and Australia along with mobile phone footage of the man's arrest, in which he verbally abused a police officer and claimed he had diplomatic immunity. He had such immunity, conferred by protocol to the partners of senior envoys to New Zealand, which he later waived voluntarily. He pleaded guilty to New Zealand's lowest level of assault charge in January. It is punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $NZ4000 ($A3700). "For the avoidance of any doubt at all, he is not here to be sentenced for abusing the police or rashly claiming diplomatic immunity," Judge Mabey said. "He was right to say he had that immunity," the judge added. "He was completely stupid to say it at all." But the magistrate said he would discharge the man because of his wife's suggestion that the Australian diplomatic service would be unable to ignore the husband's conviction and the widely-distributed mobile phone video of his arrest when considering her future. "If I were not to suppress his name, his offending would be inextricably linked to his wife and she would suffer considerably," the judge said. He rejected a bid by the man's lawyer to suppress the country his wife represented in New Zealand. A New Zealand court has discharged the husband of an Australian diplomat without convicting him, months after the man pleaded guilty to assault for drunkenly spitting on a teenager during a street altercation on the night of a rugby match in Wellington. The man was granted permanent name suppression. Judge Paul Mabey, presiding at the Wellington District Court, said he didn't accept the man's arguments that the potential harms to him justified the discharge, but the magistrate agreed that his wife's diplomatic career could be curbed by an assault conviction and the publication of his name. The man could be barred from travel abroad to her future postings, the judge said on Thursday, and the family could be split up if the Australian High Commission decided he could not remain in New Zealand to preserve the bilateral relations between the countries. The charges arose after an episode last September after the man attended a rugby match between New Zealand and Australia in the capital. He was drunk when he arrived at Wellington's main nightlife area, where he approached a group of teenagers and became aggressive when they didn't want to engage with him, the judge said. A member of the group punched the man, who responded by spitting on a young woman. He was arrested by police officers who happened to be passing. The case has provoked widespread news coverage in New Zealand and Australia along with mobile phone footage of the man's arrest, in which he verbally abused a police officer and claimed he had diplomatic immunity. He had such immunity, conferred by protocol to the partners of senior envoys to New Zealand, which he later waived voluntarily. He pleaded guilty to New Zealand's lowest level of assault charge in January. It is punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $NZ4000 ($A3700). "For the avoidance of any doubt at all, he is not here to be sentenced for abusing the police or rashly claiming diplomatic immunity," Judge Mabey said. "He was right to say he had that immunity," the judge added. "He was completely stupid to say it at all." But the magistrate said he would discharge the man because of his wife's suggestion that the Australian diplomatic service would be unable to ignore the husband's conviction and the widely-distributed mobile phone video of his arrest when considering her future. "If I were not to suppress his name, his offending would be inextricably linked to his wife and she would suffer considerably," the judge said. He rejected a bid by the man's lawyer to suppress the country his wife represented in New Zealand. A New Zealand court has discharged the husband of an Australian diplomat without convicting him, months after the man pleaded guilty to assault for drunkenly spitting on a teenager during a street altercation on the night of a rugby match in Wellington. The man was granted permanent name suppression. Judge Paul Mabey, presiding at the Wellington District Court, said he didn't accept the man's arguments that the potential harms to him justified the discharge, but the magistrate agreed that his wife's diplomatic career could be curbed by an assault conviction and the publication of his name. The man could be barred from travel abroad to her future postings, the judge said on Thursday, and the family could be split up if the Australian High Commission decided he could not remain in New Zealand to preserve the bilateral relations between the countries. The charges arose after an episode last September after the man attended a rugby match between New Zealand and Australia in the capital. He was drunk when he arrived at Wellington's main nightlife area, where he approached a group of teenagers and became aggressive when they didn't want to engage with him, the judge said. A member of the group punched the man, who responded by spitting on a young woman. He was arrested by police officers who happened to be passing. The case has provoked widespread news coverage in New Zealand and Australia along with mobile phone footage of the man's arrest, in which he verbally abused a police officer and claimed he had diplomatic immunity. He had such immunity, conferred by protocol to the partners of senior envoys to New Zealand, which he later waived voluntarily. He pleaded guilty to New Zealand's lowest level of assault charge in January. It is punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $NZ4000 ($A3700). "For the avoidance of any doubt at all, he is not here to be sentenced for abusing the police or rashly claiming diplomatic immunity," Judge Mabey said. "He was right to say he had that immunity," the judge added. "He was completely stupid to say it at all." But the magistrate said he would discharge the man because of his wife's suggestion that the Australian diplomatic service would be unable to ignore the husband's conviction and the widely-distributed mobile phone video of his arrest when considering her future. "If I were not to suppress his name, his offending would be inextricably linked to his wife and she would suffer considerably," the judge said. He rejected a bid by the man's lawyer to suppress the country his wife represented in New Zealand.
Time of India
27-05-2025
- Time of India
Truck crashes into bike on Sohna highway, 2 die
Gurgaon: Two bikers lost their lives in a hit-and-run incident involving a truck near Mandawar, Sohna. The victims were travelling from Sohna to Faridabad. A motorist alerted police about the accident. The complainant in the case, Rajnesh, a resident of Badshapur, told police he was going to his workplace around 11pm. When he reached Mandawar village on the Sohna-Faridabad stretch, he saw two persons coming from Nimoth on a bike, headed to Faridabad. A truck trailer, bearing the registration number RJ 25 GA 8242, also coming from the same direction, hit the bike from the rear side and drove over them. "The victims sustained fatal injuries, including ones to their heads. The truck driver didn't stop to help them out. I informed the police control room, after which we rushed the victims to Sohna civil hospital, where doctors declared them dead. The truck driver was driving rashly," the complainant said. The investigating officer in the case, ASI Ravinder, said, "We identified the victims. While Suraj worked as a labourer, Deepak worked in a food delivery company." An FIR was filed against an unidentified accused under sections 106 (causing death due to negligence) and 281 (rash driving) of BNS.
