Results for From the Courts

Six people, accused of sedition in relation to the events of 16/11, appeared in the Nuku‘alofa Supreme Court today at the start of a trial that is expected to last over two weeks.

The case of the 59-year-old Chinese naturalised Tongan woman charged with attempted murder and other crimes will be tried in the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court.

The preliminary inquiry of a 59-year-old naturalised Tongan-Chinese woman charged with attempted murder has been postponed to Thursday, February 19.

A 27-year-old man who robbed $467 pa'anga from the Hot Bread Shop at Fanga was sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court today.

Vilisoni Tauelangi, a 34 year old man from Pea, Tongatapu, will be sentenced on Friday, February 13 for riotous assembly and the destruction of the Molisi Tonga supermarket during the Nuku'alofa riots of November 16, 2006.

In a New Year resolution, the Tonga Ports Authority is taking firm action to ensure that old vessels berthed at the Queen Salote Wharf are safe and sound and to remove those that are not.

In handing down a five years imprisonment sentence on a man who indecently assaulted an 11-year-old girl, Chief Justice Anthony Ford pointed out that it might be timely for Parliament to review the maximum seven years imprisonment penalty for indecent assault in Tonga.

The Court of Appeal of Tonga this morning quashed a decision by the Supreme Court to allow the Crown to file two additional charges of abetment to riotous assembly and abetment to the damage of buildings against each of five accused who were charged in relation to the riots of November 16, 2006.

A Halaleva man who forcefully entered a home at Tofoa armed with a rifle and stole goods valued at $15,640 pa'anga was sentenced to 10 years and six months imprisonment on Monday, September 22.