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A man described as a highly intelligent and meticulous criminal with many identities is tonight in jail for committing the country's biggest benefit fraud. At the High Court in Auckland Wayne Patterson was sentenced to at least five years behind bars for using false identities to steal more than 3 point 4 million dollars in unemployment and superannuation payments.But as our reporter Joy Reid explains, it's not the first time he's been jailed PKG
Peter Hughes is the MInistry of Social Development's chief executive. He says Wayne Patterson's life was a sorry one - what does he mean? PREREC
Soccer's world governing body has scrapped a crucial home match between the All Whites and Fiji, saying the Government here is to blame. The NZ team was due to play Fiji in Auckland tomorrow, in a world cup qualifying match but FIFA has postponed the game. The Government had refused to grant a visa to Fiji's goalkeeper Simione Tamanisau - whose fiancee's Father is in the Fiji military. That decision's based on sanctions put in place after last December's coup. FIFA's representative in the region is Tai Nicholas. CUT And he says politics and sport don't mix. CUT
Graham Seatter heads New Zealand Football. He says FIFA gave him an ultimatum. PREREC
Well, the Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says today's move is a "complete u-turn" by New Zealand Football. Mr Peters joins us now LIVE
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BUSINESS NEWS
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An author who wrote about the female experience with fire, scepticism and visionary power. That's how judges described British writer, Doris Lessing in announcing she'd won the Nobel Prize for Literature today. At 87, the author is the oldest winner of the prize. But it's her work that made Doris Lessing stand out. CNN's John Sparks reports PKG
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A man who subjected a woman to a rape ordeal in her home south of Auckland has been jailed for at least 16 years. Today in the High Court in Auckland Roger Tira Kahui was sentenced to preventive detention, with a minimum non-parole period of 16 years for the attack in Pukekohe last year. He violated his victim over four hours before she was able to escape. Here's retired Detective Senior Sergeant Neil Grimstone, who headed the investigation PREREC
An identity fraud "unique" in the history of New Zealand. That's the view of Barry Jordan, a forensic accountant who helped the Ministry of Social Development with its investigation into fraudster Wayne Patterson. Today Mr Patterson has been sentenced to eight years jail for using 123 false identities to steal more than 3 point 4 million dollars in unemployment and superannuation payments. The investigation was triggered when a bank spotted suspicious banking activity across 14 accounts, 10 of which had benefits being paid into them. Mr Jordan describes how the investigation unfolded. PREREC
More than a hundred people have gathered at a wreath laying ceremony in Wellington to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. The bloodiest day in New Zealand's military history is also being marked by ceremonies in Belgium. In just one day of fighting at Passchendaele during the First World War, more than two-thousand-seven-hundred New Zealanders were either killed, wounded, or listed as missing. Charlotte Graham reports. PKG
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WAATEA NEWS
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Five years ago today , a truck bomb exploded outside the busy Sari nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali. That attack,and another, smaller bomb at nearby Paddy's Bar, killed 202 people, mainly foreign tourists. A monument has gone up nearby, listing the names of all the victims, but the site of the Sari Club, known locally as Ground Zero - remains an empty plot of land. The BBC's Indonesia correspondent Lucy Williamson reports: PKG
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