Nine admit charges linked to drug lab

Nine people have pleaded guilty to charges related to a methamphetamine ring which ended in the demolition of a Napier house which had been used as a drug laboratory.
The laboratory folded when 13 people were arrested in Operation Attic, a police inquiry which ended with a house, occupied by a couple and their children, being raided by police in July last year.
The nine who have pleaded guilty appeared in the High Court in Napier yesterday.
Those who pleaded guilty included the couple, Richard John Samuel Te Rure, 38, and Donna Marise Wilson, 41, both facing charges of manufacturing methamphetamine in the house in Robinson Crescent, Tamatea.
They also faced charges of ill-treating the children by endangering their health.
The others who pleaded guilty at the callover before Justice Forrest Miller were Joanna Marina Te Rure, 19, Craig Paul Bryan, 33, Craig Gregory Otter, 39, Paul Anthony Smith, 34, Gregory Oscar Olsen, 37, Jason Thomas Scully, and Regina Waiata Smith, all charged with manufacturing methamphetamine.
The three members of the Te Rure family were remanded in custody, as were Bryan, Otter, Paul Smith and Scully.
The others who appeared were Joanne Te Rure, Brian Perry, 39, and John Miller who all pleaded not guilty and were granted bail pending further proceedings, and the 13th person, Delores Angela Kingi, 18, who was discharged.
The operation collapsed when police, including armed offender squad members, swooped on a Housing Corporation rental home in Robinson Crescent on the morning of July 28 last year.
The making of "P", the pure form of methamphetamine, including the cooking of chemicals, had been taking place in the kitchen and lounge, while children were in the house, police said. It had so severely contaminated the building that the decision was made to demolish the house.
The Crown is expected to seek long jail sentences, particularly for Richard Te Rure, a patched Black Power member who has been imprisoned for serious drug offending in the past.
Two years ago, he and four others, including another Napier Black Power associate, walked free after a High Court jury in Rotorua found them not guilty on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine in a house near Ngongotaha.
Last month, Mongrel Mob member Ehau Michael Hapuka Te Nahu, 42, was sentenced to 9 1/2 years for manufacturing methamphetamine in Central Hawke's Bay in late 2003.
Several others were arrested, including people charged with supplying precursor substances obtained by buying cold remedies from pharmacies.
Both operations involved police electronic surveillance of properties where P was being made.