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Officer recalls moment car struck Lyn Fleming

Otago Daily Times Online News·Wednesday, 6 May 2026·27 days ago
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By Samantha Gee of RNZ A policeman has told the High Court how two of his fellow officers did not have enough time to get out of the path of a speeding car before the collision that sent them flying in a Nelson carpark. Hayden Tasker, 33, is on trial for murdering Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming and seriously injuring Senior Sergeant Adam Ramsay early on New Year's Day in 2025. He has admitted three charges of dangerous driving, but has denied that he intended to kill or hurt the pair. Constable Jonathan Fris told the High Court at Christchurch how he was working that New Year's Eve and had driven a patrol car into the Buxton Square carpark shortly after 2am to deliver a summons book to another officer. He was talking to Ramsay through the driver's window, with Fleming standing close by. "We just heard this really loud accelerating, and in my mind I was thinking, 'well, that's a vehicle travelling way too fast in the carpark'." Fris said he looked over to see the car coming diagonally towards him.…

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