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Hastings man jailed after FBI tip foils planned court-day mass stabbing

Hastings man jailed after FBI tip-off

A Hastings-based man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison after a joint investigation uncovered extensive child exploitation offending and a planned mass stabbing attack at his own court hearing.

The 22-year-old, who has interim name suppression, was sentenced in the Napier District Court to five years and four months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to 13 charges. The offences included indecent communications, distributing objectionable material, and threatening to carry out a mass stabbing attack during his sentencing on 17 December 2025.

The case followed a coordinated investigation by the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) and New Zealand Police. A search of the man’s home in August 2024 led to the seizure of two electronic devices containing more than 2,300 images and videos of sexual abuse and exploitation. The material included child sexual abuse, bestiality, necrophilia, and terrorist and violent extremist content.

Investigators identified multiple victims, including a child under 16 who had been solicited for sexually explicit images. In September 2024, the FBI alerted DIA that the man intended to carry out a mass stabbing attack on his court date. Police subsequently located two bladed weapons in his bedroom, including a bayonet he allegedly planned to use, along with a manifesto describing his radicalisation at age 19.



Police say the man was active in violent online groups targeting children, the LGBTQ+ community and other vulnerable people, coercing victims into sharing explicit material and engaging in self-harm for extortion.

Detective Inspector James Keene said the case highlighted effective international cooperation, while DIA’s Jared Mullen said the investigation prevented serious harm both online and in the real world. The man will be registered as a child sex offender and his devices destroyed.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. Seems to be a lot of this shit going on
    When You skim the surface
    Which hasn’t suddenly arrived
    But now caste out of the shadows as appears patently obvious

    • Nihilism has returned. Prepare for a future of chaos. The political structure (the fake two party “democratic” system predominant in the “west”) is unleashing their creation as they desperately cling onto power.

  2. This is why there are metal detectors in the Courts…except-
    Plastic veggie / produce knives and titanium knives will not set-off the detectors.
    The ‘suspect’ would have been under surveillance with the undercover cops only seconds away from him before the sentencing anyway, so his chances of pulling off a ‘mass stabbing’ would have been zero.
    The SIS & GCSB have the tools here domestically to do what the FBI did with their ‘tip-off’, but this is just an excuse to justify the FBI being here in NZ in order to bring-about and advise Judith and Chippy plus the Uni-Party on how to proceed with Agenda 2030 and the lead up to the same with strange laws.
    (For example the recent forming of the Super Ministry consolidating power for the formation of enslaving us in human dog kennels inside of :15 Minute Cities, deciding on how we travel, and what commodities we will be denied in the event of lows social credit scores, vaccination status, etc.).

  3. People think this is a physical problem but it is prophetically significant and biblically explained in that the subject of deamons tends to be shunned due to the taboo nature of it but in actuality how can you not say demons are not possessing and driving people who are all out to do what evil does?

    It ain’t God nor cats, ducks, and chickens doing all this, it’s demonically motivated evil. How can it be anything else? There’s nothing closer to satan than humna exploitation, harmful acts towards others, mass murder, and death cult thinking and behaviour.

    It’s time everyone started bringing evil into the light to expose it for what it is because I see no other way to stop the evil, this is a spiritual fight and I’m sure everyone feels the shift. Just look at McSkimming and his sexual fantasies that are anti-God and pro-evil. This is God’s fight everyone just needs to know what side their on.
    Evil is on this earth until the end and getting more amplified and we all need to know how to deal with this and it isn’t about joining them, it’s about salvation away from wickedness and sin that we all are guilty of in some way ever since the beginning of time. The difference is whether people can admit to themselves that there’s more to this world than a flash car, promiscuity, lots of money, or anything else humans were never designed to exploit.
    The evil is going to get far worse whether people know it or not. It is what it is and it isn’t going to be a compassionate world with peace and love as being touted by the authoritarian powers that be.
    It’s going to be a cyberpunk world with only evil in power. Time to get good with God.

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