PHOTO: ROB KIDDA teenager who decapitated two stags during late-night poaching missions during lockdown has been sentenced to community work. Sweeney was driving contrary to his restricted licence, but that was the least of the trouble which ensued. They pursued the animal on foot 800m into farmland before shooting it with the use of the spotlight. "He’s a shooting, hunting, fishing type of person. Judge Robinson refused the police suggestion to ban the defendant from driving because it would "set him up to fail".

Source: Otago Daily Times April 29, 2021 16:45 UTC