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A Hastings woman's been sentenced to more than four years in prison, for hitting and killing a girl cycling to a dairy in January

A Hastings woman's been sentenced to more than four years in prison, for hitting and killing a girl cycling to a dairy in January

18 July 2025

Open Justice reports 35-year-old Terina Pineaha pleaded guilty to manslaughter this year, after driving into 11-year-old Emma-Jane Kupa in Flaxmere.

The mother of five was intoxicated and high, travelling at twice the speed limit, on the wrong side of the road.

She was angry, thinking her partner was cheating.

Mother Shannon Davis has told her daughter's killer at the High Court at Napier, she will never understand the pain - describing it as living in a horror story on repeat.

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14 Dec: Hawkes Bay Police are urging the public to keep their homes and vehicles secure - with a spike in the number of diesel thefts in rural Hastings

11 Dec: A Police watchdog report finds officers in Hawke's Bay unlawfully entered a house this year and used unjustified force to arrest a man breaching bail

10 Dec: Police are maintaining an increased presence in Horowhenua's Foxton Beach after the deaths of two people in a house fire

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