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<\/p>\nA man accused of carrying out a rampage in Auckland’s Epsom last week \u2013 injuring three high school cyclists, assaulting a jogger and killing a dog \u2013 has made his first court appearance. <\/p>\n
The 49-year-old faces 17 charges, including wounding and injuring with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, assault with a weapon and dangerous driving. <\/p>\n
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A person is in custody after the incident. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
He appeared in the Auckland District Court on Monday via audio-visual link after his initial appearance last week was postponed while he was in hospital under police guard. <\/p>\n
His lawyer, Jane-Frances O’Halloran, asked for the matter to be remanded without plea. <\/p>\n
She said she had not yet met with her client and he was due to undergo a forensic assessment while in custody. <\/p>\n
O’Halloran asked for interim name suppression to continue, which was granted by Judge Simon Lance. <\/p>\n
The man was remanded in custody and will next appear in September. <\/p>\n
Alleged rampage across Epsom <\/p>\n
Epsom MP and former Auckland Grammer old boy David Seymour said “nobody wants something like this to happen in their community”. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n
The man was taken into custody last Wednesday following what police described as a “violent series of events” in Epsom shortly after 7am. <\/p>\n
A female jogger was assaulted on Manukau Rd before a car was stolen from a woman who had stopped to help. <\/p>\n
Speaking to 1News, the good Samaritan described a man’s behaviour as “completely nonsensical and erratic”. <\/p>\n
Police alleged he drove off and struck a group of Auckland Grammar School cyclists on a training ride, leaving three boys injured. One remained in a critical condition in hospital days later. <\/p>\n
A woman was assaulted, three teenage cyclists injured and a dog killed in a morning rampage.\u00a0 (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
After the stolen car crashed at Tasman Fuels, witnesses said a man ran across the road and began attacking a dog, which later died. <\/p>\n
Police described the incident as “extremely violent and totally unnecessary” and said officers arrived within eight minutes of receiving the first emergency call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of carrying out a rampage in Auckland’s Epsom last week \u2013 injuring three high school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-564459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564459","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=564459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}