Justice Susanne Stushnoff found that Ritik Sibbal, who came to Canada in 2019 to study business, knowingly entered an unlawful deal with Grande Prairie resident Rajiv Chourhary Nathyal.

The final two years of the sentence were suspended, with the offender ordered to complete 100 hours of community service, report regularly to a probation officer, and abstain from alcohol.

21-year-old attacked his father in a St Kilda apartment about 9pm on 19 October last year, telling him, “I have to do this … I’m going to stop you.”

Abdul Ahmadi ran dismantling yards in Christchurch and Wellington under the guise of a legitimate business, but police found he was secretly dismantling stolen cars and exporting them overseas.

The driver, accused of double parking her silver Hyundai on Boucaut Avenue in Blakeview in 2021, claimed she was not parked but held up in stationary traffic.

On a London-to-Lahore flight Salman Iftikhar, 38, targeted senior flight attendant Angie Walsh with a tirade of abuse, threatening she would be dragged from her hotel room, “gang-raped” and set on fire.

Parminder Singh, an Indian national who migrated to New Zealand in 1998, was convicted on five counts of rape, two counts of sexual violation, one charge of stupefying a victim, and two charges of exploiting temporary workers.

Justice Ellenbogen said Khan’s age was not sufficient reason to protect his identity, declaring that “the public will wish to know the identity of those who commit such serious offences.”

Navjeet Singh, who allegedly fled Canada for nine months to avoid arrest after a crash that killed a Manitoba mother and her eight-year-old daughter, is accused of turning off his truck’s data recorder, falsifying driving logs, and failing to take required rest hours, with police saying he never returned for a post-crash interview.

Since laws banning dodgy job advertisements came into effect, the workplace regulator has intensified its efforts to stop underpayment before it begins.