New Zealand national news stories for former on Thursday 08/02/2007

Former Labour MP dies
TV3
Wed Feb 7 09:30:27 2007
A Labour MP who left Parliament in 2005 after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, has died.

Former minister set out to deceive, court told
TV3
Wed Feb 7 08:54:35 2007
The High Court has been told a former immigration minister set out to deceive the very department he ...

Ex-Minister Aimed To Deceive - Prosecutor
Xtra MSN
Wed Feb 7 08:38:53 2007
Former immigration minister Tuariki John Delamere set out to deceive the very department he had been in charge of, with an elaborate plan of fraud, the High Court in Auckland was told.

Crown opens case in fraud trial of former immigration minister
Radio New Zealand
Wed Feb 7 08:27:57 2007
The Crown says a former immigration minister used an elaborate money-go-round scheme to hide the true financial position of his clients from the Immigration Service. Tuariki John Delamere denies 20 charges ...

Former minister appears in court for fraud
New Zealand Herald
Wed Feb 7 06:56:00 2007
Former immigration minister Tuariki John Delamere set out to deceive the very department he had been in charge of, with an elaborate plan of fraud, the High Court in Auckland was told today.Crown prosecutor Simon Moore told a...

Pyschiatrist cleared of killing a patient
New Zealand Herald
Wed Feb 7 03:38:00 2007
A former New Zealand psychiatrist has been cleared of killing a patient who died of an overdose at a British hospital, the BBC reported.Peter Fisher, 46, had denied killing Peter Weighman, who died from a drugs overdose at West...

Delamere on trial for fraud
TVNZ
Tue Feb 6 12:00:00 2007
Former Immigration Minister Tuariki Delamere has gone on trial for an alleged immigration fraud

Changing face of Waitangi protest
TVNZ
Mon Feb 5 12:00:00 2007
During the 1990s Waitangi became a flash point for Maori protest. But now many of the former protesters have moved on and a younger faces are taking their place