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    https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star...ath-run-police

    A convicted murderer previously jailed for killing a paedophile is on the run.
    Police are searching for Aubrey Thomas Harrison​, 40, who was convicted of killing a man in 2007. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

    Police said he is considered dangerous and should not be approached. They believed he could be in the Wellington or Manawatū area.

    Harrison was jailed for life, with a minimum non-parole period of 12 years, for his part in the vigilante killing of convicted paedophile Glen Stinson in Foxton in July 2007.

    He and two others bashed Stinson to death. Stinson was put in a car and taken from Palmerston North to Foxton where his body was left outside a poultry farm.
    Harrison was released from prison in October last year.

    He had multiple convictions, including for violence, drug offending and disobeying court orders.

    His parole conditions included staying home between 10pm and 5am, staying out of Foxton, and he was banned from communicating with his fellow offenders and any Black Power members.

    Anyone with information about his whereabouts was urged to call 111 and quote file number 201222/8087.

    Information could also be supplied anonymously through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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    https://www.ketv.com/article/james-f...nder/36144079#

    Verdict is out on James Fairbanks murder trial. James Fairbanks is facing allegations that he killed a rapist. There was a petition that Fairbanks supporters put out there about being pardoned.

    A man accused of killing a convicted sex offender has pled no contest.

    Officials say James Fairbanks has pled no contest to the second-degree murder of Mattieo Condoluci.

    Fairbanks now faces 21 years to life in prison.

    His attorney, Steve Lefler, told KETV that taking the plea was Fairbanks' choice.

    Sentencing has been set for July 14.

    Police found Condoluci's body near 43rd and Pinkney in May of 2020.

    Fairbanks emailed a confession to KETV NewsWatch 7 four days later.

    According to Fairbanks, he was searching for a rental where he could live, along with his 12-year-old son, and he decided to look up registered sex offenders in the area.

    Fairbanks said Condoluci's address was near an apartment he was interested in. When Fairbanks drove by, he said he saw Condoluci watching children playing, and there was a playground in Condoluci's back yard.

    "I was literally ill. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat," Fairbanks said, "I was so in knots about the whole thing."

    Police arrested him the day after he sent the confession email. Fairbanks explained why he sent the email:

    "I didn't want-- the fact that he was a two-time sex offender with a playground in the back yard, and what I had seen, just kind of get swept under the rug," Fairbanks said.

    Asked if he feels remorse, Fairbanks said it's complicated.

    "I don't have remorse for Mr. Condoluci," Fairbanks said, "Sorry, I'm going to get emotional. I know I hurt my kids. I definitely have regrets about what they're going through."

    Supporters have rallied behind him with an online campaign titled Freedom for James Fairbanks.

    Fairbanks said he hopes his motive and Condoluci's background will play a role in the trial.

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    https://lawandcrime.com/crime/former...-sex-offender/

    Details are crazier than that on James Fairbanks. Sure Mr. Fairbanks isn't even a cop in Nebraska and he's trying to justify deadly force because the victim was a convicted rapist and he will be more paranoid as every vigilante ends up being after they get convicted for murder.

    . Nebraska man and former school paraprofessional James Fairbanks, 44, pleaded no contest on Thursday to second-degree murder for shooting convicted sex offender Mattieo Condoluci, 64, in a 2020 confrontation, according to Omaha World-Herald.
    There’s no dispute Fairbanks did it. He repeatedly admitted to the act, even sending a letter to media outlets before his arrest. As far as the prosecution was concerned, the dispute was over whether Fairbanks did the right thing, and whether the defense was disingenuous.

    “There are a lot of criminals in the world,” said chief deputy Douglas County attorney Brenda Beadle. “You don’t get to confront them and then try to claim self-defense. Especially when you do all this research on someone a week before you murder them.”

    Condoluci was convicted of child molestation in a 1994 Florida case, and a 2007 case out of Sarpy County, Nebraska. Prosecutors in the latter incident considered him a “dangerous sex offender” even after his 2009 release from prison. For a time, Condoluci went onto become a street minister to the homeless in Omaha, serving meals and giving haircuts.

    But Fairbanks, who was the father of sons aged 12 and 17, said he was apartment hunting and learned of Condoluci’s past when researching the neighborhood he planned on moving into. He claimed to have witnessed him pretending to wash a truck in order to leer at a group of nearby children.

    The defense account is that an armed Fairbanks went to Condoluci’s home. Fairbanks told Condoluci he was moving nearby, and pointed a gun at him — not to murder Condoluci, he claimed, but to warn him against harming any other kids.

    Fairbanks claims Condoluci backed up, but the defendant mistook an object for a purse and thought a woman might have been at the scene. In that moment, Condoluci allegedly charged Fairbanks, who opened fire multiple times.

    Prosecutors basically called this story a bunch of B.S.: the defendant, Fairbanks, was not apartment hunting, he was pedophile hunting. Before the incident, Fairbanks looked up whether the state’s death row had a commissary, what punishments men got for killing sex offenders in the past, whether a local gunshot alert system could hear such sounds from inside a home, how self-defense was defined as opposed to second-degree murder, and even the way to another sex offender’s home.

    Fairbanks has apparently gotten the lion’s share of support. Laura Smith certainly shed no tears for the deceased man. She is the mother of the boy in the 1994 Florida case and started a Facebook group against Condoluci. Smith said her son died of drug problems in 2017, and she blamed it on the abuse. Accordingly, she told the World-Herald last year that she did not think Fairbanks should get jail time.

    Condoluci’s daughter, Amanda Henry, who said her father abused her as a child, argued that Fairbanks should only get probation.

    “Murdering my dad was a horrible thing,” she said. “But children are much safer now; any other child he could have hurt is much safer.”

    Fairbanks’ ex-wife, Kelly Tamayo, who previously sought protection orders against him in 2016 and 2018, also voiced support despite their past.

    A prison term is inescapable, however. Under the terms of the plea bargain, Fairbanks faces 21 years to life at the sentencing set for July 14. The victim’s son, Joe Condoluci, acknowledged his father’s criminal history and was distraught over his sister’s allegations, but he said that Fairbanks was looking for evil reasons behind his father’s routine behavior, such as cleaning his truck.

    “The guy didn’t know my dad,” he told ABC affiliate KETV in 2020. “He didn’t know anything about him all. He knew was stuff that he’s seen online.”

    The defendant told the World-Herald after court that he regretted what he put his family through.

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    https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/s...or-drug-money/

    “The entire village will kill itself.”

    These were the chilling, desperate words of Emalahleni municipality mayor Ntombizanele Koni speaking at Zingqolweni village in Cacadu (formerly Lady Frere), where an extraordinary war over drugs and money is ripping a once close-knit Eastern Cape community apart.

    On Wednesday night, six men aged between 21 to 27 were slain by an angry mob — local community and council leaders said the older people in the community had struck back against a gang, the Amaphara.

    Since December, seven elderly people, mostly women living alone, have been killed in the village.

    It is believed Wednesday's “executions” were done by enraged villagers who wanted revenge.

    At the heart of it all, said sources, was the slaughter of the elderly, allegedly for their grant money — to satisfy drug cravings.

    The death toll in three months stands at 13.

    A seventh man is fighting for his life after he suffered severe burn and assault injuries on Wednesday night.

    Provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Liziwe Ntshinga ordered a 72-hour activation plan.

    She said: “My forces are not going to sleep until the heartless criminals are found. Mob justice remains a serious offence and those who continue to engage in vigilante-style activities must face the consequences of their actions.”

    Community leaders said the police were well aware of the tension in the village and that previous interventions had failed.

    Police spokesperson Brig Tembinkosi Kinana, said the mob killing happened at Zingqolweni and neighbouring Maqhashu village at about 5.45pm.

    Kinana said: “Police were alerted by a community member of four young men who had been burnt alive in the open veld.

    “As they were working at the scene another report arrived of two more bodies of young men found hanged in the nearby forest in the Maqhashu administrative area.”

    A once peaceful village was now the epicentre of murder, rape and drugs, said mayor Koni, ward councillor and resident Cecil Bobotyane and headman Mzimasi Nqwenani.

    Bobotyane said: “The community of Zingqolweni fears more bloodshed after this week’s killings. We call on the police to act swiftly to protect lives.

    “The young men were accused of terrorising elderly villagers, robbing them of their old age social grants, killing and raping others and creating havoc in the community.

    “It is believed the community became fed up and protected themselves from the rule of terror from the Amaphara, as they call them.”

    Bobotyane, Koni and Nqwenani called on the community to not take the law into their own hands.

    Koni said: “I have been to this village many times, with government leaders and SAPS provincial management, led by Ntshinga. A large contingent of police was deployed to instil law and order.

    “But, soon after they left, the killing and rape of elderly people resumed. But we urge our people not to make things worse by taking the law into their own hands with revenge killings.

    “This will not help, but will make it worse and the entire village will kill itself. We need cool heads, and no more bloodshed; two wrongs cannot make a right.”

    A large contingent of police has occupied the village. There was tension when police tried to address a group of men.

    The men said if the police tried to arrest one of them, they would have to arrest all the men of the village.

    Slain Bubele Pupu’s mother Nokhwezi, 64, said her son and another man had been hanged in the forest with wire, doused with petrol and set alight.

    Bobotyane said the community knew the young men to be Mphumezi Maliwa, John Gingqini, Khananda Nkunkumana, Xolani Mhlomi, Bubele Pupu and Yongama Mbovane.

    Bobotyane named those who had been slain and robbed in the past as: Gcobile Fihla, 60, killed on December 1; Nowezile Mbovane, 78, killed on January 4; Nozaziyedwa Nontyida, 68; Nosizwe Victoria Yawa, 68; Mthemkana Mpoqane, 88; Nowezile Khuphiso also called Nomsisi Somkhosi, 82 — all slain on February 1.

    “A seventh elderly deceased Mthuthuzeli Mfinyongo, no age given, went missing after he was last seen drawing his old age grant on April 7. His decomposing body, full of stab wounds, was found in his locked house six days later.”

    It is believed this discovery triggered the community's rage. Villagers allegedly gathered at a large open-air meeting and vowed to hunt down members of the Amaphara gang.

    Both Bobotyane and Nqwenani said the killings had created a siege mentality.

    Nqwenani said: “I fear more bloodshed. This village is in turmoil. We live in fear. These are the people I lead and I cannot be proud of leading a community where people are killed like dogs.

    “I urge police minister Bheki Cele and the provincial police leaders to instil law and order in this village before we are all killed.”

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    . BRIDGEPORT -- Three years ago, Rita and Charles James, of Fairfield, were cheated out of seeing their son's name cleared by a jury when Jonathon Edington accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to 12 years in prison for fatally stabbing Barry James.

    But on Friday they got their chance again when a civil court jury began deliberating the case against the former patent lawyer.



    Earlier Friday, Edington, who is representing himself in the trial in Superior Court, got his first chance to publicly defend his actions when he took the witness stand.

    Dressed in prison khakis and guarded by a judicial marshal, Edington launched into a lengthy narrative beginning when he graduated law school. But his first words made it appear he had finally given up the contention that he killed the 59-year-old disabled James because he believed the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter.

    "Let me just say I am going to testify about things I believed. Just because I believed, it doesn't mean I believe it today," he said.



    "I still believe my daughter was afraid of him and he must have done something," Edington later told the jury. "But I can't believe he was a bad person overall, certainly nothing he could have done justified what I did to him."

    Edington, who turned 34 on Friday, is accused of leaping through the window of James' first-floor bedroom and stabbing the disabled man more than a dozen times on Aug. 28, 2006, after Edington's wife told him their daughter complained that James had molested her.



    Fairfield police later conducted an investigation and found no evidence that James, who had trouble walking without assistance, could have snuck into the Edingtons' home on Colony Street and molested the girl.

    Edington cried numerous times as he described his and his wife's life together, their dreams and hopes for their future. He cried again when he spoke of meeting James' elderly parents, Rita and Charles, who had lived in the home they shared with Barry James since the original Pearl Harbor Day on Dec. 7, 1941.



    But most of his emotion was reserved for his retelling of the events that led up to him killing James.
    https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/...led-741398.php

    Crazy to hear a lawyer use deadly force and it was for a false rape allegation.

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