An arsonist, Taniela Matangi (38) will serve seven years imprisonment, for serious housebreaking and stealing tapa and mats from a church minister's home in Longolongo. The charges included serious arson after he set fire to a bedroom at the home. Three others were jailed for receiving the stolen property.
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Monday 28 July 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Thursday 28 November 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Taulanga Nonu was jailed for five and a half years for serious housebreaking, theft and serious arson of the Teta Tours building in the Central Business District. His co-accused, Molitoni Moimoi was sentenced to three years and two months in jail. The Lord Chief Justice considered that Nonu had destroyed property worth no less than $1 million, while Moimoi had a deplorable history of previous offending.
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Wednesday 30 January 2019
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Sione Fakalelei Valuvalu Manu received one-year six-months suspended prison sentence for serious arson, when fuelled by alcohol and anger he set fire to a house, which he occupied with his family in June 2018.
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Friday 16 June 2017
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
An angry, drunken man who wilfully set fire to a relative's house at Tatakamotonga, Tongatapu, was found guilty of serious arson, in the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on 14 June.
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