Two mob members arrested
PA Wellington The Mongrel Mob gang members, Ramon Tangitutu, aged 27, and Irvine Norman Babbington, aged 27, walked into the Lower Hutt Police Station yesterday and gave themselves up. The two men had been sought for questioning after an incident in the Hutt Park Hotel 10 days ago when customers were harassed by three men armed with a shot-gun. The shot-gun was fired into the roof of the hotel’s public bar. At least 10 people were struck by the lead shot as it ricocheted off the bar roof.
Paul Chase, aged 25, was later fatally shot by the police when members of the armed offender squad forced their way into his home seeking to arrest him for involvement in the incident.
The police later named Babbington and Tangitutu as the other two men that they considered were involved. The two men were accompanied by a laywer, Miss Shirley Smith, when they went to the police station. Both men were arrested and will appear in the District Court at Lower Hutt today.
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Press, 26 April 1983, Page 7
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