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A disabled Tongan prince, who told the court that he fears for his life after being hit with the stand of an electric fan, has been granted a restraining order against his wife.

The Managing Director of Shipping Corporation of Polynesia Ltd John Jonesse who is charged with forgery is set to appear for his Preliminary Inquiry in the Magistrate's Court on April 23, the Police Prosecutor Mema Latu confirmed yesterday.

Jurors today found Alani Vaomotou of Vaotu‘u guilty of manslaughter by negligence in drunken driving that killed his passenger in 2007 at Halaliku.

'Alani Vaomotou of Vaotu'u appeared in the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court this morning charged with two offences of manslaughter by negligence and drunken driving that killed his passenger in 2007.

Five People's Representatives in the Tongan parliament in 2006 are acquitted of an indictment on a joint charge of seditious conspiracy because of inadequate evidence by the Crown, in a decision released by Tonga's Appeal Court on Wednesday.

A man accused of murdering 22-year-old mother of three, Fononga Taufa, later confessed to police that he stabbed his wife in a drunken rage at her parents' Vaini home on February 21, the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court was told today.

The two cases that the Court of Appeal has not passed its judgement on included a criminal appeal made by People's Representatives 'Akilisi Pohiva, 'Isileli Pulu, William Clive Edwards, 'Uliti Uata and a former PR Lepolo Taunisila against a decision made by Justice Andrew in March granting Crown the right to file amended indictments against them.

The Tongan Court of Appeal 2009 Session, which begins on Monday, June 29, will hear 21 appeal cases, probably the most made in the history of a Court of Appeal Session.