5 Feb 2009
GREENLAND V NEW ZEALAND POLICE HC HAM CIV 2008-419-92
- Citation
- openlaw-1ec4d167_3c9a_41b4_9209_9f634abfea7e.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The conviction for theft was upheld because the cumulative circumstantial evidence (TradeMe listings linked to the appellant, purchase and delivery of the goods by the appellant to the nominated meeting point, possession of the wheel rims and tyres and the connection of the vehicle bought under the appellant's TradeMe identity to the theft scene) permitted a safe inference beyond reasonable doubt that the appellant was one of the thieves; the conviction for receiving was set aside because the four month interval between the Raglan burglary and discovery of the quad bike and post hole borer wa…