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Foxton Hit again early hours this morning

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Problem is from memory is that there are various avenues to take off in after doing the deed etc.SH1 alongside, "Govt Hill" leads to houses etc, head west to airport area,through the gates into Park Street.Yep its my home town and suggest it would be hard to cover. Thought they had the mongrel from all press reports.

Cheers Archie

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Did he not like the early starts of being on staff. Will get the sleep in he desired over next few weeks. Then again he may get the sharp end of the stick while in Coventry for those inside with TAB accounts who punt PL

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Please be mindful this matter is still currently in the Courts so is subjudice.

 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/8312383/Rider-clams-up-over-arson-talk

 

Rider clams up over arson talk  

JIMMY ELLINGHAM

Last updated 08:00 16/02/2013
 
       
 
 

A former Foxton Racecourse track rider clammed up in the witness box when probed about his recollection of a conversation with arson-accused Kelvin Webb and what he told police about it.

Danny Stamm was again giving evidence in the High Court at Palmerston North yesterday where Webb, 36, is on trial for lighting five fires at the racecourse between November 18 and December 18, 2011.

Webb has pleaded not guilty to five charges of arson. The defence says someone else - probably Mr Stamm - is the arsonist.

Mr Stamm was interviewed by police after the first three fires and told Detective Steve Yates he thought Webb, after drinking, had said something like that he had a history of arson or liked lighting fires.

Defence lawyer Fergus Steedman asked Mr Stamm why he did not tell police about Webb's remarks before the interview.

"Because they wanted to see me anyway about it, so I knew it was going to be coming out in my statement," Mr Stamm said.

"It's all coming out now, mate."

Mr Steedman asked him why he did not tell the police immediately.

"He didn't literally say he was lighting fires around the place. If he had said something like that I would have gone and [seen] the police," Mr Stamm said.

Mr Steedman read several pages of the police interview transcript where Mr Stamm appeared to waver in what he was saying, telling Mr Yates he "wasn't 100 per cent certain" about the conversation or that Webb had said something, yet at another time agreeing he was about 99 per cent sure.

In the interview Mr Stamm also could not remember exactly what Webb had said. When asked by Mr Steedman, Mr Stamm denied he felt pressured by police in the interview or that he was trying to lead the police away from him to "save his own skin".

At one point Mr Stamm seemed to tell Mr Yates that if Webb had a history of arson then it must have been him who made the remarks, "but if he doesn't, then I don't know."

Mr Steedman asked Mr Stamm what he meant. "No comment," he said.

After responding "no comment" to further questions, Mr Stamm said he was honest "as much as I can".

"When are you not honest?" Mr Steedman asked. "No comment."

"Do you have two recent convictions for shoplifting in 2010 and 2012?" "No comment."

Mr Stamm also declined to comment when asked if he liked horses or if he knew when horses would be kept in stables and when they would not be.

Three of the five blazes destroyed racecourse stables on nights when animals were not inside.

The jury asked Justice Jillian Mallon if medical evidence would be produced following a question from Mr Steedman to Mr Stamm on Thursday.

 

Mr Stamm was asked why he was looking for moisturiser for his redder than usual face on November 19, the day after the first fire.

He said it was because he shaved without using shaving cream, but Mr Steedman said it was because he was too close to the blaze.

However, Justice Mallon said information received from the police on Thursday night meant it was now known that Mr Stamm was looking for moisturiser on November 12, 2011, a week before the first fire.

The jury should disregard the issue, the judge said.

The trial continues.

- © Fairfax NZ News

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/8328488/Foxton-Racecourse-fires-arson

 

Foxton Racecourse fires 'arson'  

JIMMY ELLINGHAM

Last updated 12:00 20/02/2013
 
       
 
 

Scene examinations of three Foxton Racecourse fires have confirmed they were acts of arson.

Former racecourse caretaker Kelvin Mark Webb, 36, is on trial in the High Court at Palmerston North facing five charges of arson in relation to fires at the racecourse between November 18 and December 18, 2011.

Justice Jillian Mallon and the jury heard from Fire Service investigator Murray Kidd yesterday. He examined the scene of the November 23 fire, which was the second to break out in racecourse stables and the third in total.

Electrical problems were ruled out as a cause, because the power had been turned off after a previous fire.

The stables were located next to State Highway 1 and half of them were destroyed.

"I established the most likely point of origin of this fire was the west end of the stables," Kidd said.

A plastic bottle was found nearby and it contained traces of flammable liquid.

Kidd also investigated a November 27 fire that broke out in a wood shed near the caretaker's house.

Three fuel patches in grass areas, a set of keys and a plastic container and spout containing traces of flammable liquid were found at the scene.

Power had been on at the shed but electrical problems were ruled out as a cause of the fire, as they were in the final fire on December 18 at another set of stables.

Kidd said empty DB and Heineken beer cans were found near that scene.

All three fires appeared to have been deliberately lit. Kidd was unable to say exactly what accelerant was used to ignite the fires.

Defence lawyer Fergus Steedman said he accepted that the fires were acts of arson.

"Five fires in a month really speaks for itself."

The defence says that somebody else is the arsonist, possibly former track rider Danny Stamm.

The trial continues.

- © Fairfax NZ News

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