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Head Hunters Gang Pad Devalues Innocent Neighboring Property

Head Hunters Gang Pad Devalues Innocent Neighboring Property
22nd April 2016

“Innocent people’s lives are being destroyed by these drug manufacturing thugs and its time someone had the balls to stand up to them” Guthrie.

Sensible Sentencing Trust’s Scott Guthrie is once again calling for the government to tell New Zealanders just what it is they intend to do about the ever growing gang problem in New Zealand.
People are living in fear of these thugs and now we are seeing properties devalued because no wants to live there.

A Christchurch couple have seen the value of their property take a major slide backwards due to the Head Hunters living next door and having the Police raid it as a known Meth Lab. No one wants to live next door to a gang with that reputation. We just want to get out of here. “I haven't wanted to go out and say anything because of who they are," she said.

Scott says this is intimidation at its worst and these thugs need stopping. The government needs to create policy so the citizens of New Zealand feel safe in their own homes so that the Gangs of New Zealand aren’t calling the shots like they are now”.

“The police have made a plea for community support saying, they can’t do it alone.”
“While we agree with what the police are saying and will support them all we can in reality the problem lays fair and square in the Governments and the Courts hands.”

“Our call is for the Government to step up and give the Police the tools and resources to bust the gangs and the Courts a directive to hammer them hard.”

ENDS

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