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Second offender in ‘drown him’ case sentenced
• By Sophie Cornish
A SECOND teenager in the
highly-publicised Rolleston
“drown him” case has been
sentenced to four months
supervision and 100 hours of
community service.
Judge Stephen O’Driscoll approved
the plan for the sentencing
on Tuesday, which followed
a two-day Youth Court hearing
in December.
Both 17-year-old offenders
were found guilty of assault
with intent to injure, following
an attack on a 16-year-old victim
in November 2016.
The offenders, who were 16 at
the time, confronted the victim
in Tennyson St, Rolleston, after
the annual fireworks event.
It was alleged the victim was
assaulted and pushed into a water
race, where he had his head
held under water while other
youths yelled “drown him.”
The other offender received
70 hours community service.
Both were required to attend
a family group conference with
the victim.
Pussy Riot to play Chch
• By Julia Evans
NOTORIOUS Russian feminist
punk band Pussy Riot is
bringing its Riot Days show to
Christchurch.
Merging music, dance, theatre,
protest and projected visuals at
Blue Smoke in Woolston from
7.30pm next Friday, five members
of the group will be telling the
story of Maria Alyokhina’s time
in a Russian prison cell. The show
is an accompanying piece to
Alyokhina’s memoir.
The group was founded
in 2011 and is made up of
an interchangeable number
of women
who staged
unauthorised
and provocative
guerrilla
performances
in public places
around Russia,
Vladimir
Putin
which were then
posted online.
Its themes
include feminism, LGBT rights
and strong opposition to Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
Blue Smoke owner Alasdair
Cassels said he was “absolutely
chuffed” to host Pussy Riot.
“We get a lot of overseas acts,
but Pussy Riot would be up
there.” He is preparing for an
intense show.
In February 2012, Pussy Riot
gained global notoriety when
five members donned balaclavas
and staged a performance inside
Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the
Saviour – one of Russia’s holiest
sites – to protest Putin.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova,
Yekaterina Samutsevich
and Alyokhina were later
arrested and charged with hooliganism.
Denied bail, they were
held in custody until their trial
began in late July. They were all
convicted of “hooliganism motivated
by religious hatred” and
sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
However, Samutsevich
was freed on probation and her
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PUNK ROCK: Pussy Riot will bring its Riot Days show to Blue Smoke next Friday.
sentence was suspended. The sentences
of the other two women
were upheld and they each served
21 months.
The case attracted considerable
attention in western countries
and was taken up by human
rights group Amnesty
International.
Pussy Riot also stormed the
Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014
where members were attacked
by whips, and ended up in
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court after a performance at
the Football World Cup final in
Moscow last year.
The group performed at the
Auckland Town Hall at the end
of February and will perform
in Wellington on Tuesday and
Dunedin on Sunday.
•To buy tickets for
$48 each, go to www.
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ticket/9934/Pussy-Riot-Riot-
Days.utr
Thursday March 7 2019
in brief
Fire rages, homes at risk
Woman arrested after
Lichfield St incident
A 31-year-old woman has been
charged with robbery and wilful
damage following an incident on
Lichfield St on Tuesday. A police
spokesman said the woman was
arrested for attempting to steal
a vehicle after she alledgedly
assaulted another woman just
after 9am. A woman was taken
to a 24-hour surgery with minor
injuries after the incident.
More than $258k
to restore lodge
A $258,782 grant to restore
Lyttelton’s former masonic
lodge and the studio of wellknown
New Zealand artist Bill
Hammond was recomended
by the social, community
development and housing
committee yesterday. Kilwinning
Lodge, on Canterbury St, was
badly damaged in the February
22, 2011, earthquake and has
been empty since. The new
owner plans to turn the building
into an office and retail space.
Not long to have say
on draft Annual Plan
Consultation on the city
council’s draft Annual Plan is
open until the end of the month.
Mayor Lianne Dalziel said the
draft plan has a few significant
changes from the budget forecast
for year two of the Long Term
Plan. It reflects a desire to reduce
rates increases, remove chlorine
from the city’s drinking water
and focus on roads, footpaths
and parks. Go to the city
council’s website to read the plan
and give feedback.
CPR training for
school students
Students at Christchurch Boys’
High School will be part of the
pilot programme pushing for
CPR training in the national
school curriculum. St John
plans to teach 600 year 9 and
10 students on Monday how to
perform CPR. More than 4000
students from nine Christchurch
high schools have signed up for
the initiative so far.