The Star: September 17, 2020

Thursday September 17 2020 The Star
• By Anneke Smith
IT COST nearly $40,000 to fly
the March 15 mosque terrorist
to and from Christchurch in
an Air Force Hercules for his
sentencing in late August.
The Australian national was
jailed for life without parole for
the attacks after earlier pleading
• By Kerrie Waterworth
THE CHRISTCHURCH skier
who survived a 400m fall down
Mt Aspiring thought he was
going to die from hypothermia.
Luckily for him, he only suffered
a fractured vertebrae, a
fractured sacrum and a badly
dislocated knee.
Andy Hoare and friend Melvin
Krook climbed the south-west
ridge of the Wanaka mountain
and reached the summit just
after 2.30pm on September 2.
Their trip turned sour when
the 33-year old started his descent
and hit an icy patch.
They had just started skiing
down the west face in what he
described as “not too bad” snow
conditions when he lost his balance.
“I hit a hard icy patch of snow
and then caught an edge,” he
said.
“I dug my ski boots in and
slowed down a bit but then
caught them on a hard patch
and started to rag-doll down the
slope.”
Hoare said he remembered
falling backwards and trying to
dig a ski pole into the snow.
“I knew I was in trouble and if
I did not stop there was a big cliff
coming up, so I tried to dig in as
much as I could.”
When he finally came to a stop
guilty to murdering 51 worshippers
at Al Noor Mosque and
Linwood Islamic Centre, and to
shooting and injuring 40 more
in an attempt to murder them.
Information released to RNZ
under the Official Information
Act shows it cost the Defence
Force $39,321 to use the Hercules
from Auckland where he was
at the bottom of the west face, he
was fairly certain he had broken
bones.
He believed he would not be
alive today if it were not for the
quick response of the Wanaka
search and rescue alpine team.
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Nearly $40k to transport mosque terrorist
being held in custody for the
sentencing at the High Court at
Christchurch.
The terrorist had asked to
attend his sentencing remotely;
his lawyers arguing it would
save costs and avoid the need for
secure transfer from Auckland
to Christchurch.
It was a request opposed by
Skier who fell 400m
thought he would die
TROUBLE: A selfie of Melvin Krook and Andy Hoare (right)
at the summit of Mt Aspiring, unaware they would strike
disaster moments later on their descent.
PHOTO: MELVIN KROOK
“I was aware of my knee and
the back of my legs and I thought
I had broken both legs.
“Hypothermia can kick
in fairly quickly when
someone’s injured and I
was thinking: ‘If I don’t get off
the Crown, who said there was
no reason why the sentencing
should not be conducted with
the defendant present.
Justice Mander ultimately ordered
him to be in court for the
sentencing; citing concerns he
could be trying to avoid being
held publicly accountable for his
crimes.
– RNZ
‘I was thinking: ‘If I don’t
get off this mountain soon
I will die’
– Andy Hoare
this mountain soon I will die’.”
Hoare said Krook saw him
fall, skied down to the glacier
and pressed the button on their
personal locater beacon.
He wrapped Hoare in an emergency
blanket and spare clothing
to keep him warm, and gave
him first aid until the helicopter
arrived.
Hoare said he was grateful to
Wanaka Search and Rescue team
members Gary Dickson and Lionel
Clay, who were there within
40min of receiving the call, and
the nurses at Dunedin Hospital
who he described as “awesome.”
Hoare said he was an experienced
rock climber and had
scaled many mountains but had
not had an accident before.
Reflecting on his experience,
he would not have done anything
differently, he said.
Hoare was a glacier guide
before the Covid-19 crisis and
when he recovered from his
injuries he planned to return to
mountain climbing but would
“definitely be giving skiing a
break,” he said.
– Otago Daily Times
NEWS 3
Daniels
almost hit
by car
during
police chase
• By Matt Slaughter
MOTORISTS WERE lucky to
escape injury when a vehicle
being driven erratically was
pursued by police yesterday.
Among
them was city
councillor James
Daniels (right),
who said the car
he was driving
was almost
hit by a brown
Ford Falcon
being chased by police along
Blenheim Rd.
“The Falcon came steaming
down that right turning lane
and went up over the little
garden median strip and just
missed me and it gave me a hell
of a fright, obviously,” he said.
“He got past me and then
drove on the wrong side of the
road and there were cars going
in all directions.”
A police spokeswoman said
officers tried to pull over the
car about 8.30am on Wainui
St in Riccarton - but the driver
fled.
The officers quickly
abandoned the chase due to the
manner of driving.
The car crashed into a parked
vehicle on Middleton Rd, and
the driver and a passenger fled
on foot.
The driver, a 29-year-old
man, was caught and appeared
in the district court yesterday,
charged with failing to stop,
reckless driving, driving while
disqualified, possessing an
offensive weapon, possessing
methamphetamine and
unlawful interference/getting
into a vehicle.
The second person was still at
large yesterday afternoon and a
manhunt was under way.
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