The High Court has allowed an appeal against a judge's decision to discharge rugby player Losi Filipo without conviction for assaulting four people, including two women. Losi Filipo. In a judgment delivered this afternoon, the judge said the appeal should be allowed. "Having determined the appeal is allowed the immediate consequence is that the decision discharging Losi Filipo without conviction is set aside," he said. The police prosecution service explained that either through an oversight or miscommunication within the police prosecution service, Filipo's case was not referred to the Solicitor-General when it should have been.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 27, 2016 04:05 UTC