Public Appeal To Identify Pair Of Alleged Kidnappers

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Police are appealing to the public for help identifying an offender who allegedly beat a man unconscious, kidnapped him and stole his car in Auckland. The man is believed to be one of two perpetrators who abducted the victim, who is in his 20s, on September 26. The victim was sitting in his  dark grey 2010 Holden Commodore station wagon at the time of the incident, which was parked outside Sylvia Park mall just after 1pm. During at least one of the assaults, the man claims he was knocked unconscious. However one of the alleged kidnappers made a crucial error - stopping to get petrol in the victim's car in Wiri and being spotted by CCTV cameras.

Labour Weekend Road Toll Ends At Three

New Zealand's Labour Weekend holiday road toll has finished at three, two less than the same period in 2015. The deaths included the country's first female Maori police detective. Seventy-nine-year-old Te Rauoriwa Daphne Pomare died after a head-on collision in Paekakariki on Sunday morning. She was taken to hospital with critical injuries, but died overnight. On Monday a 56-year-old man died when a motorcycle and car collided at Wallacetown, west of Invercargill. The accident happen at about 3pm on State Highway 99, police say. The man died at the scene and no one else was injured.