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Wanganui councillor: fence bid unlikely to succeed

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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 9:25p.m.

Neighbours did not want the Hells Angels fence taken down as it would lessen their own privacy (file pic)

Neighbours did not want the Hells Angels fence taken down as it would lessen their own privacy (file pic)

An application by Wanganui District Council and police to remove a fence around the local Hells Angels headquarters is unlikely to succeed, a councillor says.

The council yesterday voted 8-5 to partner police in applying to the district court for an order to remove the two-metre high fence in Kaikokopu Road, Wanganui.

Inspector Duncan MacLeod, of Wanganui police, told the council the fence stopped police from having ready access to the headquarters in executing search warrants and chasing fleeing offenders, who had evaded police by entering the gang compound.

Councillor Rob Vinsen told NZPA he had surveyed the property's neighbours, many of whom were elderly, and they did not want the fence taken down because it would lessen their privacy.

The council resolution was politicking on Mayor Michael Laws' behalf, he said.

He expected the application would not succeed in court, as the fence had been built with council consent in the 1980s.

Four councillors had accepted an invitation from the gang to visit their property on Tuesday, but the visit was cancelled at the weekend.

Mr Laws had called Mr Vinsen the "local criminal gangs' leading apologist" in response to the plan to visit the headquarters.

NZPA

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28 Jan 2010 07:40a.m.

ACCSUX wrote:

Ha wat a joke.. the biggest gang of criminals run this country.... the councils ... no matter wat ya say.. the hells angels cant change the law to make there crimes go away... they hav accountability,, when they break laws.. unlike the criminals running NZ... whom are in a criminal league of there own.. above the law.. they just change the law when they break it.. yes the lowest of the lowest... scum.. Funny though.. the council ,, or should i say ,, Mr laws says there a gang and criminals... yet the council still takes money ,rates...from these so called gang members. criminals.... Lets face it if there was a real gang in wanganui.. mr laws would be dead already.. and yes there are so many ,, things in wanganui that mr Laws and his cohorts,, are paid to do.. but mr laws and his scum mates..no longer want to do there jobs.. they were voted in to do... they are abusing there power..failing to do there jobs.. instead wanting to inflict there personal agenda .. accsux..

27 Jan 2010 11:28p.m.

Trevor Briggs wrote:

2 metres + the razor wire = 2.5 metres.
There is no place in NZ for this sort of fortress and what crimes it hides within its walls.

These gang pads should be wiped out throughout NZ and the criminals who haunt them locked up forever!.

Gangs will eventually be the downfall of decent society and if somethings not done soon we can kiss all our freedoms goodbye.

WHERE IS THE LAW?, WHO IS THE LAW?

27 Jan 2010 10:20p.m.

Andrew wrote:

I very much doubt that they can order its removal. At two metres it is entirely within the law and moreover, if you want to build a two metre high fence or wall Council consent is not needed.