The Star: September 07, 2023
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>September</strong> 7 <strong>2023</strong><br />
6<br />
NEWS<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
‘For three teenage boys to<br />
have seen that is disgusting’<br />
•From page 1<br />
“We have just got to sit back<br />
and put up with it.”<br />
Krause said it was a matter<br />
for police to investigate if there<br />
was an allegation of criminal<br />
behaviour.<br />
“What our customers do<br />
in their personal lives is not<br />
something we as a landlord have<br />
a right to control,” Krause said.<br />
“Our customers have the same<br />
rights to privacy as any private<br />
renter or person living in their<br />
own home.<br />
“We are aware there have been<br />
tensions between neighbours<br />
living in the<br />
street.<br />
“We worked<br />
closely with<br />
other agencies<br />
and residents<br />
of the street<br />
Liz Krause<br />
to understand<br />
what was going<br />
on.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Kāinga Ora resident was<br />
accused of terrorising neighbours<br />
in 2021 with a prolonged<br />
campaign of intimidation and<br />
abuse.<br />
<strong>The</strong> man was accused of<br />
shooting a kids’ pool with slug<br />
gun pellets and threatening the<br />
life of a 4-year-old girl on the<br />
street.<br />
Said Krause: “It became<br />
clear . . . the issues raised were<br />
historic(al), mostly dating back<br />
to 2016, and that they were<br />
addressed by the appropriate<br />
authorities at the time.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> mum’s 17-year-old son<br />
had his friends over last Friday<br />
night when her neighbour started<br />
having sex with another man<br />
outside.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y knew the kids were there<br />
because they [the kids] were out<br />
the back making noise,” she said.<br />
DAMAGE:<br />
<strong>The</strong><br />
residents<br />
believe<br />
their<br />
Kāinga<br />
Ora<br />
neighbour<br />
shot a<br />
kids’<br />
swimming<br />
pool with<br />
slug gun<br />
pellets.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y knew there were young<br />
boys here. We can see everything<br />
in that backyard and for three<br />
teenage boys to have seen that is<br />
disgusting.<br />
“What if my 14-year-old<br />
daughter had seen it? That is<br />
something that, to be quite<br />
honest, should be in the bedroom<br />
and not outside in clear view.”<br />
Another resident said the man<br />
“wasn’t even trying to be quiet<br />
about it”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> neighbour said the two<br />
men looked up and saw the<br />
teenagers watching them,<br />
“dumbfounded”, and quickly got<br />
up and pulled their trousers up.<br />
“I know it’s their property, but<br />
hey, come on – in full view?”<br />
Gledhill said indecent exposure<br />
is only met if the offender knows<br />
they can be seen from a public<br />
place.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re is a specific defence<br />
of having reasonable grounds<br />
for believing they cannot be<br />
observed,” he said.<br />
“It sounds like this man wasn’t<br />
aware he was being watched, and<br />
as soon as he became aware, he<br />
stopped.<br />
“I’d imagine that the police<br />
will have decided that this test<br />
wasn’t made out because the<br />
man will have been able to prove<br />
the defence of the prosecution<br />
would have difficulty in proving<br />
that he acted ‘intentionally and<br />
obscenely’.<br />
“A further complication might<br />
be that kids in a private garden<br />
next door are not in a public<br />
place – public place means a<br />
street, park, a shared driveway or<br />
[somewhere] public are entitled<br />
to go,” Gledhill said.<br />
In 2021, Kāinga Ora said it<br />
was aware of “historic[al] issues”<br />
at the property involving police<br />
and “concerns about illegal<br />
behaviour”.<br />
Neighbours said swastikas were<br />
painted on the street and claim<br />
the man was seen giving the Nazi<br />
salute and celebrating the mosque<br />
terror attacks.<br />
A petrified family said they<br />
were ordered to “get somewhere<br />
safe” and “get<br />
down on the<br />
floor” when<br />
armed offenders<br />
squad members<br />
stormed the<br />
property in<br />
2020, dragging<br />
the man from Kris Gledhill<br />
his home after<br />
reports of a firearm.<br />
In another incident, a gang<br />
of youths allegedly smashed<br />
their way into the state house in<br />
search of the man, damaging the<br />
property and breaking windows.<br />
He escaped by jumping a fence<br />
into a neighbour’s yard.<br />
One neighbour claims he was<br />
attacked with a pitchfork during<br />
a street brawl involving people<br />
associated with the house.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y get away with it every<br />
time,” said the neighbour.<br />
– NZ Herald<br />
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