A long-serving teacher and master in charge of rugby at a prestigious South Island school has been awarded $25,000 after a botched police investigation.
A knife-wielding man who sparked a stand-off with police on a Dunedin motorway spat into the mouth of an officer while being apprehended, a court has heard.
Almost three years since the former head of southern Victim Support was sentenced in Christchurch for offences against a pre-teen boy, he has withdrawn his appeal of the convictions.