Two charged with kidnapping and aggravated robbery

A man and a woman appeared in Rotorua District Court yesterday on kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges.

Spraypainter Shaun Michael O'Rourke, 34, of no fixed abode, and unemployed 26-year-old Sonia Carolyn Ashby, of Rotorua, did not enter pleas to four charges of aggravated robbery and four charges of kidnapping.

Ashby was remanded on bail and O'Rourke in custody to reappear in court on January 20.

- DAILY POST (ROTORUA)