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    A Nelson man who held two victims at gunpoint - one for 15 hours - has pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping and bomb threats

    A Nelson man who held two victims at gunpoint - one for 15 hours - has pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping and bomb threats


    Phillip Clinton Mant was arrested after a stand-off at a Motueka Street property last August.

    Prosecutor Mark O'Donoghue says the victims, including an 80-year-old man, believed they'd die if they didn't meet the 56-year-old's demands.

    Mant wrote hundreds of pages of angry notes in the months before, and took a rifle, ammunition and an explosive device to the victims' street.

    He's been remanded in custody for sentencing in July.

    © 2025 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

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