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Craig Kapitan

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Courthouse reporter for @nzherald in Auckland. Former criminal justice editor/reporter for the San Antonio Express-News in Texas, and ex-TVNZ homepage editor.
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Kaixiao Liu body in bag trial: Notes detail Shulai Wang’s captivity, punishment in Auckland home

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By Craig Kapitan 
| Cooking the Books with Frances Cook
All four defendants have pleaded not guilty. Alleged sect leader Kaixiao Liu (from left), his wife, Lanyue Xiao, his father, Jingui Liu, and his mother, Xiuyun Li, are all on trial in the High Court at Auckland accused of participating in the homicide of 70-year-old Shulai Wang. Photos / Jason Dorday Although many of the notebooks were unsigned, the one referring to putting Wang in a suitcase was found to have Xiao’s fingerprints on it.
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Family violence killer Tupaea Kerr jailed for murder of Charlie Watson in Glen Eden, Auckland

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By Craig Kapitan 
| Cooking the Books with Frances Cook
“In many ways, the trial was worse than burying Charlie because, as a whānau, we were exposed to and subjected to Charlie’s last hours on earth,” the victim’s aunt, Andrea Watson, said.
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Leilah Faamausili jailed for fatal drink-drive crash near Auckland’s Waterview Tunnel Original

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By Craig Kapitan 
| Cooking the Books with Frances Cook
“Your actions placed a large number of people in danger,” Justice Mount said. “Your driving was persistently erratic... This was not a momentary lapse of attention or a split-second mistake.” Emergency services attend the serious crash on State Highway 16 at the Great North Road off-ramp on King's Birthday weekend last year.
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