He appeared in court via phone later that day charged with breaching Covid legislation and was granted bail back to the Novotel facility. Abigail Dougherty/Stuff A tree near the fence line of the Novotel Ellerslie was being examined by police after the man allegedly absconded. POOL Chris Hipkins says there is little detail currently available around an escapee from an MIQ facility in Auckland. Ricky Wilson/Stuff A police officer in a boiler suit in an Ōtāhuhu street after a man absconded from a quarantine facility. That was agreed by Judge Belinda Sellars QC, who granted the man bail back to the quarantine facility on a 24-hour curfew.

Source: Stuff September 02, 2021 02:23 UTC