The Star: December 06, 2018

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Thursday December 6 2018
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Triple treats
grow older
•From page 1
“And Macy is the sweet,
patient one. She will wait patiently
for things and is cuddly,
quiet and enjoys playing by
herself.”
Along with
the triplets,
Sarah and
her husband
Fionn are
kept busy
with two
other boys,
Olly, 6, and
Archy, who is
almost three-years-old.
The Hoon Hay family often
get stopped in public by people
asking questions about the
large family, or just to admire
then.
“I get a lot of comments from
people saying about how busy
I must be. A lot of older ladies
are amazed by the girls with
their bright red hair and blue
eyes. Even older men stop me
to tell me stories about their
family trees or a friend of a
friend who had triplets.”
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More charges laid in Operation Inca
•From page 1
Widespread suppression orders
remain in place for many of the
people charged.
A North Canterbury man in
his 50s, a driver, appeared yesterday,
facing one race fixing charge,
alleging that a substance was
administered to a horse to gain
an advantage at a race meeting
earlier this year. He is charged
with conspiring with one of the
other defendants to fix the race.
The latest charges are against
nine people. Four charges allege
drug transactions and eight allege
race fixing. At least one of
the new charges of race fixing
was laid as an alternative to an
earlier charge, defence counsel
James Rapley told the court, Stuff
reported.
Some cases are remanded without
plea but many now have pleas
of not guilty and elections of trial
by jury. The cases going to trial
are remanded to March 25 for a
case review hearing.
Andrew Stuart has pleaded not
guilty to five race fixing charges.
Suppression orders covers eight
of the names of those involved,
the nature of some charges, and
the summaries of facts relating to
the race fixing charges.
For four of those involved,
SCANDAL: A major police investigation into race fixing is
continuing.
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER
name suppression was refused in
the district court, but it has been
appealed to the High Court. That
appeal hearing was due to be
heard next week, but it has now
been delayed to February 7, Stuff
reported.
The cases were called yesterday
to progress some of them
through to a hearing on January
29, and then most are also arranged
to carry on to the case
review hearing – the next step in
the trial process.
•Horse trainer Nigel Raymond
McGrath faces one race fixing
charge. He is remanded to the
case review.
•The man who has been
newly charged was remanded
to March 25 on one race-fixing
charge and granted interim suppression
until that date, when the
issue will be argued if it is to be
continued.
•Brent Stephen Wall, 47, who
was charged in the North Island,
was remanded straight to the
March 25 date when the case
was transferred and he did not
appear at court in Christchurch
for yesterday’s session. He faces a
race fixing charge.
•Defence counsel Phil Shamy,
appearing for Elie Georges Sawma,
42, a Papanui hairdresser,
said his client was not actually
part of the Operation Inca investigation,
but pre-trial arguments
would cover the same issues as
other defendants. His case on
charges of supplying ecstasy and
cocaine has been dealt with at
the Operation Inca hearings so
far, and he is again remanded to
the same case review session in
March.
•Nigel Raymond McGrath,
a 44-year-old horse trainer, of
Rolleston, appears on one race
fixing charge. He is remanded to
the case review.
•Andrew Douglas Stuart, 42, or
Loburn, now appears on five race
fixing charges after two more
charges were laid on Wednesday.
He has pleaded not guilty, elected
trial by jury and all charges have
been remanded to the case review
hearing in March.
All the defendants are on
bail.
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