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Judge orders psych report A psychiatric report has been ordered for a young man who armed himself with a kitchen knife and threatened police officers. Raymond Rawiri Hemi, 22, appeared before Judge Noel Walsh in the Ashburton District Court yesterday on charges of assaulting a police officer, possessing a knife in a public place, threatening behaviour, assault, disorderly behaviour, intentional damage, animal cruelty and a driving matter. Judge Walsh dismissed the animal cruelty charge, which related to the
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death of a gull in the Ashburton riverbed, because there was insufficient information available for a conviction, but convicted Hemi on the remainder of the charges. The charges dated back to February 9, when Hemi punched his neighbour in the head and face several times. On February 20 Hemi assaulted a police officer who was attempting to arrest him at the riverbed. Hemi first appeared for sentencing in July but had failed to co-operate with a psychiatrist attempting to com-
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plete a report. New arrangements were made for the assessment interview and Hemi was released on bail. Shortly after leaving the courthouse an agitated Hemi entered a Tinwald business carrying a kitchen knife with a 30cm blade. He demanded to use the telephone while threatening to attack Ashburton police officers.
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