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25-Jul-2008

An Auckland male escort accused of flying to Nelson and using a knife to threaten another man to pay him $500 for his services will stand trial in the High Court.
Read the full story/Visit the site - The Nelson Mail

21-Dec-2007

Martin van der Reit who had been guilty of committing fraud at the Auckland Pride Centre in 2003/4 was sentenced to 30 months jail in the Auckland District Court on Thursday.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Pride Centre
Related Site - Gaynz.com report on case

26-Oct-2007

“Section 169 of the Crimes Act 1961 must be repealed,” Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Law Commission President, said today.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Law Commission
Related Site - The Partial Defence of Provocation

27-May-2006

Phillip David Sturm, 50, used to be a leading figure in Auckland's hospitality industry.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

26-May-2006

An Auckland restaurant owner has been jailed for nine years for giving young men drugs in order to have sex with them.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

10-Apr-2006

Former Auckland restaurant owner Philip Sturm was last night convicted on six charges of drugging and sexually violating men in a retrial of a case first heard in 2003.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

7-Apr-2006

The jury in the trial of an Auckland restaurateur charged with sexual assault has been reminded of the defence argument that all the alleged victims had a strong motivation to re-order reality.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Radio NZ

6-Mar-2006

Auckland restaurant owner Philip Sturm is again facing a High Court trial on charges of sexually violating four men.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ City

15-Jan-2006

Konrad Kahuroa came to Auckland to be rich, famous, glamorous and successful in his fashion career. But the boy from Southland found a dark side to big city life. TONY WALL looks at how it all went wrong.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Sunday Star Times

22-Sep-2005

A gay rape case against a Wellington property millionaire has been dropped by Vanuatu police due to a lack of evidence, it was reported today.
Mt Victoria backpacker owner James Bernard Quin was due to go to trial on Monday and faced seven charges including rape, indecent assault and possession of cannabis.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

9-Jul-2005

WANTED: Fit and healthy homosexuals to join New Zealand's police force.
Gay officers are being sought, along with females and people of different ethnic backgrounds, as New Zealand police look to improve the diversity of the organisation.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Taranaki Daily News

11-Jun-2005

New sex charges - including rape - laid yesterday against disgraced former Christian Heritage Party leader Graham Capill outline a decade of alleged abuse of young girls.
An ashen-faced Capill - who has already pleaded guilty to a representative charge of indecently assaulting a female under 12, a charge on which he was to be sentenced yesterday - appeared briefly in Christchurch District Court.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

10-Jun-2005

Today's sentencing of former Christian Heritage Party leader Graham Capill has been delayed following new charges, one of which relates to an allegation of rape, being laid against him.
Capill was to be sentenced in the Christchurch District Court today on a representative charge of indecent assault of an 8-year-old girl.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

14-Jul-2005

Graham Capill completed a spectacular fall from grace today when he was jailed for nine years on child sex charges.
As Christian Heritage Party leader, Graham Capill spoke out against sex before marriage and spent almost 14 years espousing "pro-family" policies.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

15-May-2005

Graham Capill was the Christian politician who railed against smut and immorality. Now he faces sentencing after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl. "It was a weakness of the flesh," says a former colleague. "He sinned," says another. Steve Braunias talks to the friends and associates who have forgiven Capill - and those who haven't.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Sunday Star Times

6-Apr-2005

I was aghast at the news of Graham Capill’s sexual crimes. What was particularly staggering was that here was a person who had headed the Christian Heritage Party for a number of years, fulminating against sexual evil yet been involved in it himself.
I had never been able to bring myself to vote for Capill and Christian Heritage. It all seemed too narrow and hard in its approach. Yet I have to acknowledge that Capill is a fellow evangelical Christian, even if his version has a fundamentalist shade which mine has not.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

2-Apr-2005

The family of convicted sex offender Graham Capill, the former Christian Heritage Party leader, are understood to be standing by him publicly despite being "torn" by his actions.
Capill pleaded guilty in the Christchurch District Court yesterday to one charge of indecently assaulting a girl under 12.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

2-Apr-2005

Yesterday Graham Capill pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 12. As Christian Heritage Party leader, Graham Capill portrayed himself as moral watchdog to the nation and guardian of family values.
The following are quotes from his time as Christian Heritage leader:
"The association of the innocence of an infant with the filthy lifestyle of homosexuals is offensive in the extreme." Protesting pro-homosexual billboards promoting the Hero Parade - 1998.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Stuff Website

1-Apr-2005

The man who was the face of Christian politics in New Zealand for more than a decade is awaiting sentence on a child sex abuse charge.
Graham Capill, the former leader of the Christian Heritage Party, admitted the offence in the Christchurch District Court.
Video available on site
Read the full story/Visit the site - TVNZ

1-Apr-2005

Christian Heritage NZ shares with most New Zealanders, a deep sense of shock at the guilty plea of former leader Graham Capill to criminal charges relating to the indecent assault of a child. CHNZ leader Ewen McQueen said Mr Capill’s shameful actions were destructive both to the victim, and to himself and his family. They also brought reproach on the party and the wider Christian community in New Zealand. McQueen said
“New Zealanders are entitled to have high expectations of their leaders, especially those who profess the Christian faith. In this case those expectations have been terribly betrayed. ”
Read the full story/Visit the site - Christian Heritage New Zealand

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