Valentine \u201cPop\u201d Nicholas, 64, who the Crown alleges is the president of the Maket\u016b chapter of the Mongrel Mob, is jointly charged with murder.<\/p>\n
Others charged who can also now be named include George Alan Perham, 54, Colin Kiriona, 41, Nathaniel Thompson, 29, and Valentine Kemp, 39.<\/p>\n
Some of those charged still have interim suppression orders in place for legal reasons.<\/p>\n
One of those charged is a youth who was arrested in Whanganui.<\/p>\n
All have entered not guilty pleas, with a trial expected to take place in 2028.<\/p>\n
At an administrative hearing in the High Court at Tauranga this week, Justice Kiri Tahana directed the Crown to comply with its proposed timetable, which involved providing tranches of disclosure to defence counsel each month until the end of February, when the matter will be called again.<\/p>\n
Following Fox\u2019s death, officers conducted inquiries that culminated in search warrants being executed in Maket\u016b, Rotorua and Whanganui.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Craig Rawlinson said after the initial arrests that it had been a big day for the small town of Maket\u016b.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to have progressed this investigation to this point. Our thoughts are with Zain\u2019s family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hannah Bartlett is a Tauranga-based Open Justice reporter at NZME. She previously covered court and local government for the Nelson Mail, and before that was a radio reporter at Newstalk ZB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valentine \u201cPop\u201d Nicholas, 64, who the Crown alleges is the president of the Maket\u016b chapter of the Mongrel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[634,2082,4131,69480,47152,82528,13617,111,43,139,69,544,13618,98141,1415],"class_list":["post-146194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-death","tag-for","tag-fox","tag-lapses","tag-maket","tag-murderaccused","tag-name","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-some","tag-suppression","tag-taikato","tag-zain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}