Mayor, police and MP to meet over gang violence
Wairoa police will meet with the town's mayor and the local MP next week after the second gang-related shooting in five days.
Wairoa police will meet with the town's mayor and the local MP next week after the second gang-related shooting in five days.
Police and the armed offenders squad will be out in force in the northern Hawke's Bay town of Wairoa tonight.
A man was shot in the face and 24 arrests made after a violent gang brawl in the Hawke's Bay town of Wairoa this morning.
A woman police constable was attacked by a motorist she pulled over for drunken driving.
Armed police remain on alert after a gang confrontation in Wairoa last night ended with a man being shot in the face.
Bar patrons took a drunk man outside because they thought he was about to vomit, not realising he was choking on a pie, the coroner has found.
Guy Sainsbury came across a group of people who had seen a vehicle 80m down a bank, and decided to look around the area himself.