Results for Police Commissioner Grant O'Fee

Twenty-two of the Tupou College accused who remain in police custody today have been variously charged with trespassing, housebreaking and causing grievous bodily harm. One student has been charged with attempted arson, while a Tupou College teacher and a bus driver have been charged with aiding criminal damage and are remanded in custody.

Charges have been laid against 147 accused students and ex-students from Tupou College, who have each been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit willful damage to a building in regards to an attack at a home in Tofoa on Thursday night, July 18. Tonga Police said 75 were released on bail to July 29, while 72 accused remained in custody. New charges may be laid later.

Tonga police are trying to identify skeletal human remains that were discovered in a remote cliffside area of Veitongo, on the southern coast of Tongatapu on June 25, along with a rope, and some documents that dated back to February 2012.

Two very high-ranking Tongan police officers are under an investigation into allegations that 33 convictions of Tongan citizens were ordered to be "wiped" from police records over several years, under an unwritten policy that was tacitly approved by a former and now deceased Minister of Police.

The unclaimed remains of Milan Rindzak (35), found on the 'JeReVe' yacht together with over 200kgs of cocaine on Luatafito Atoll in November last year, will be buried in Vava'u soon. Two months after his death there has been no contact received from his next of kin.

A third diver has died after using a dangerous method known as 'hookah diving' while diving for sea cucumbers this week in Ha'afeva, Ha'apai. Tonga's Police Commissioner is appealing to divers never to use the illegal method.

Tonga Police reported three accidental deaths in the last four days, including a drowning in 'Eua, a road death in Vava'u, and a suicide at Pelehake in Tongatapu.

Three Tongan Police Constables have now been charged with manslaughter in regards to the death of 20-year-old 'Inoke Finau Vala Pepa, after a fight at Vaini early Friday morning, 16 November.

A 21-year-old man who was involved in a fight following a private party at Vaini died from head injuries at Vaiola Hospital early this morning. Police confirmed that off-duty police officers were present at the party but no one had been charged at this stage of the investigation.