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Two young men feared they were going to die when a drug-using gang member they didn’t know kidnapped them in their car from Hawke’s Bay’s Te Mata Peak.
Haylen Toi Tahau, 35, assaulted both victims and told one of them he “wanted his blood on his body” during the early morning ordeal.
After taking over the driver’s seat of the victims’ car, and with them both still in the vehicle, he drove at speed towards trees and power poles and deliberately swerved into oncoming traffic, laughing and taunting his victims.
He told the young men he had spent his whole life in prison for murder, which wasn’t true, and wanted to murder again.
He was under the influence of methamphetamine at the time of the offending on November 24, 2024, a court has been told.
NZHerald
