Military-style exercises captured on covert police cameras could have been learned from Forrest Gump, the trial of the "Urewera Four" has been told.
Tame Wairere Iti, Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara, Emily Felicity Bailey and Urs Signer are on trial in the High Court at Auckland. They have denied charges of possessing guns and belonging to an organised criminal group with objectives including murder, arson and using guns against the police.
Footage captured by police surveillance cameras has been handed up as evidence and today the footage was at the centre of witness questioning.
The New Zealand Army lieutenant colonel who gave evidence today has name suppression and the media have also been banned from reporting where he is currently deployed.
The man told the High Court at Auckland that one four-man patrol "did a good job" but others looked amateur.