Rebecca Anne Massey has been sentenced to 16 years in jail for the murder of Elizabeth Booshand but could be released in eight years. This morning ACT Supreme Court...
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Massey sentenced to 16 years
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Massey gets 16-year jail term for killing
Rebecca Anne Massey was sentenced to 16 years behind bars but yesterday morning Janet Booshand simply mourned the loss of her only daughter. Mrs Booshand's daughter, Elizabeth, was killed three years ago when Massey stabbed her repeatedly in a fight at the Charnwood shops on July 25, 2008. Elizabeth Booshand died later...
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Victim's family 'will never forgive' Massey
Murder victim Elizabeth Booshand's partner has told a court he will never forgive Rebecca Massey for the killing while her daughters broke down in tears as they described their mother as a ''rose in a concrete garden''. The ACT Supreme Court also heard that convicted murderer Rebecca Anne Massey, 38, had...
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Judges reserve decision on Massey murder appeal
Three appeal judges have reserved their decision in Rebecca Anne Massey's bid to have her murder conviction overturned. Lawyers for Massey say Justice Malcolm Gray misdirected the jury at the end of the month-long trial in April and May last year. But Director of Public Prosecutions Jon White has disagreed,...
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Appeals court upholds 16-year sentence for Massey
Rebecca Anne Massey's attempt to have her murder conviction overturned has been dismissed in the ACT Court of Appeal. The court upheld the 16-year jail sentence on Thursday, with a non-parole period of 10 years, imposed on Massey for the murder of Elizabeth Booshand. Massey was found guilty of the murder by an ACT Supreme Court jury after a month-long trial in 2011. But her lawyers appealed the conviction, arguing Justice Malcolm Gray misdirected the jury at the end. Director of Public Prosecutions Jon White...
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Appeal begins against Massey's murder conviction
The ACT Court of Appeal has begun hearing an appeal against Rebecca Anne Massey's murder conviction. An ACT Supreme Court jury last year found Massey guilty of murdering Elizabeth Booshand outside a Charnwood chicken shop in July 2008. During the...
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Murderer Rebecca Massey denied conviction appeal
Murderer Rebecca Anne Massey will serve out her time in jail after a court on Friday ended her fight to overturn her conviction. Massey applied to the High Court for special leave to appeal her conviction, but two judges refused, saying...
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Chicken shop murderer's appeal dismissed
Rebecca Anne Massey's bid to have her murder conviction overturned has been dismissed. Massey is serving a 16-year jail sentence for the murder of Elisabeth Booshand, with a non-parole period of...
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Convicted killer evicted from public housing
Convicted killer Rebecca Anne Massey has been evicted from her northside public housing home, despite arguing the expulsion was a breach of her human rights. A tribunal terminated the tenancy agreement and gave Massey until last Monday to vacate the premises. Massey is serving a 16-year jail term, with a non-parole period of 10 years, for the murder of Elizabeth Booshand in...
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Victim's family 'heartbroken' murder conviction quashed
The family of an Oamaru teenager who died from stab wounds at Easter in 2010 is ''heartbroken'' they will have to go through the trauma of another trial after the youth accused of his murder had his conviction overturned yesterday by the Court of Appeal. But they vowed to ''fight for justice'' for him. Daniel Ethan Smith, who was...
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Palmyra parent firm deemed a squatter
A court has deemed Resort Properties Limited (RPL), parent company of Palmyra Resort and Spa to be a squatter at The Palmyra, a condominium resort in Rose Hall, St James, and has ordered it to vacate the premises by June 7. Resident Magistrate Natalie Hart-Hines also warned that if it fails to give up possession, a warrant will be issued requiring a bailiff to give possession to National Commercial Bank (NCB) and RBC Royal Bank, which asked the court to grant an order evicting Resort Properties on the basis of its continued trespass. The matter was last heard on April 25. The action was brought after receiver and manager of The Palmyra, Kenneth Tomlinson, and the banks discovered that in...
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Killer appeals conviction in ring-theft slaying
United Nations gang killer Michael Newman has filed an appeal of his conviction for the 2004 murder of Marc Rozen during a botched West End robbery. Newman was sentenced in February to life in prison with no...
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Evicting a tenant
EVICTING a tenant is probably one of the most difficult tasks faced by landlords of properties governed by the Rent Restriction Act (hereafter referred to as "the Act"). Quite often, a landlord may find himself on the 'wrong side' of the law by engaging in acts such as changing the locks on the doors, taking out windows or disconnecting utilities in order to remove a tenant from his property. These acts must never be considered as first option as they are in breach of the Act. Below is a summary of the correct procedure which must be followed where a landlord desires to recover possession of property to which there is no exemption from the Act. Before a tenant is served with an eviction...
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West Lancashire tenant convicted of cannabis production is evicted (West Lancashire Borough Council)
(Source: West Lancashire Borough Council) 12 December 2013, 2013/248 Council tenant convicted of cannabis production is evicted A tenant convicted of cannabis production and possession at his West Lancashire Borough Council flat and who also owed more than £2,000 in rent arrears has been evicted. Lancashire Police found 12 cannabis plants and a snap bag containing cannabis bush when they executed a drugs warrant at the home of 38-year-old Raymond Doyle on Whitburn, Skelmersdale. Officers also found a quantity of electrical equipment typical of the equipment used in the production of cannabis and a clipboard containing a...
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The Mother Died So Housing NZ Evicted the Daughter
Saturday, 15 December 2012, 12:06 pm Article: Tony Allen The Mother, the Tenant, Died So 'Housing New Zealand' Evicted the Daughter By Tony Allen IF you live in a 'Housing New Zealand' (H.N.Z) home and your mother or father is the tenant, you had better hope he or she does not die, because H.N.Z. may evict you. This is because a cruel government owned Housing New Zealand policy not to allow a family member to become a tenant of one of its homes after another family...
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Victim's family 'heartbroken' murder conviction quashed
The family of an Oamaru teenager who died from stab wounds at Easter in 2010 is ''heartbroken'' they will have to go through the trauma of another trial after the youth accused of his murder had his conviction overturned yesterday by the Court of Appeal. But they vowed to ''fight for justice'' for him. Daniel Ethan Smith, who was...
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Palmyra parent firm deemed a squatter
A court has deemed Resort Properties Limited (RPL), parent company of Palmyra Resort and Spa to be a squatter at The Palmyra, a condominium resort in Rose Hall, St James, and has ordered it to vacate the premises by June 7. Resident Magistrate Natalie Hart-Hines also warned that if it fails to give up possession, a warrant will be issued requiring a bailiff to give possession to National Commercial Bank (NCB) and RBC Royal Bank, which asked the court to grant an order evicting Resort Properties on the basis of its continued trespass. The matter was last heard on April 25. The action was brought after receiver and manager of The Palmyra, Kenneth Tomlinson, and the banks discovered that in...
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Killer appeals conviction in ring-theft slaying
United Nations gang killer Michael Newman has filed an appeal of his conviction for the 2004 murder of Marc Rozen during a botched West End robbery. Newman was sentenced in February to life in prison with no...
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Evicting a tenant
EVICTING a tenant is probably one of the most difficult tasks faced by landlords of properties governed by the Rent Restriction Act (hereafter referred to as "the Act"). Quite often, a landlord may find himself on the 'wrong side' of the law by engaging in acts such as changing the locks on the doors, taking out windows or disconnecting utilities in order to remove a tenant from his property. These acts must never be considered as first option as they are in breach of the Act. Below is a summary of the correct procedure which must be followed where a landlord desires to recover possession of property to which there is no exemption from the Act. Before a tenant is served with an eviction...
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Victim's family 'heartbroken' murder conviction quashed
The family of an Oamaru teenager who died from stab wounds at Easter in 2010 is ''heartbroken'' they will have to go through the trauma of another trial after the youth accused of his murder had his conviction overturned yesterday by the Court of Appeal. But they vowed to ''fight for justice'' for him. Daniel Ethan Smith, who was...
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