May 22, 2024
Allan ends court challenge
Former justice minister Kiritapu Allan has dropped her plan to challenge a police charge.
Radio New Zealand reported she pleaded guilty this morning to a charge of failing to accompany a police officer after a crash.
She had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving after she crashed into a stationary vehicle on Wellington’s Evans Bay Parade last July.
Defence lawyer Christopher Stevenson told Judge Brooke Gibson in the Wellington District Court Allen had agreed to pay over $5000 in reparations for the damage to the vehicles involved but she was in fragile emotional state at the time of the crimes.
Judge Gibson convicted and fined Allan $300 for the careless driving charge and convicted and discharged her for hfor failing to accompany a police officer.