5:37 pm today

Cook Islands inmate caught at cafe while on prison sentence

From Checkpoint, 5:37 pm today

A high-profile Cook Islands inmate has been caught having breakfast at a popular Rarotonga cafe in the middle of her 18 month prison sentence. Convicted fraudster Diane Charlie-Puna, was supposed to be on the prison's work release programme for the day when she was spotted, and as Caleb Fotheringham reports, the leader of one of Cook Islands' opposition parties says it's not the first time something like this has happened.