Crimes NZ

Investigative journalist and presenter David Lomas began covering the Mr Asia drug ring case when he was a crime reporter at the Dominion newspaper in Wellington in 1978. He has followed the story ever since. The Mr Asia drug ring imported large quantities of drugs into New Zealand and Australia through the 70s. The drug ring, one of the largest New Zealand has ever seen, was led by Marty Johnston...

David Dougherty was convicted for the rape and abduction of an 11 year old girl in 1993. But he wasn't guilty of the crime. Donna Chisholm was the journalist at the centre of the campaign to free him and have him compensated. In 1993, David Dougherty was convicted of abducting and raping an 11-year-old girl in Auckland. He spent more than three years in prison before being acquitted at a retrial i...

Deane Fuller-Sandys went missing on 21 August, 1989 after setting off to go fishing at the rough West Auckland beach Whatipu and for nearly a decade he was presumed drowned. Deane Fuller-Sandys went missing on 21 August,1989 after setting off to go fishing at the rough West Auckland beach Whatipu and for nearly a decade he was presumed drowned. In February 1997, police began investigating tips whi...

Teina Pora was wrongly imprisoned for 20 years for the rape and murder of Susan Burdett, brutally attacked in her Papatoetoe home in March 1992. Investigative journalist Eugene Bingham joins Jesse to us through the case. On Monday 23 March, 1992, Susan Burdett was raped and beaten to death with a softball bat. What followed would become one of this country's most prominent miscarriages of jus...

Olivia Hope and Ben Smart disappeared in the Marlborough Sounds in the early hours of New Year's Day in 1998. Investigative journalist and author, Mike White, has covered this case through all its twists and turns over two decades. Ben Smart and Olivia Hope were last seen about 4am on January 1 1998 when they were dropped off to a yacht by a water taxi. Ben and Olivia were planning to sleep on the...