4:42 pm today

Whakaari/White Island owners have conviction quashed

From Checkpoint, 4:42 pm today

The owners of Whakaari/White Island have had their company's conviction over the volcano's deadly 2019 eruption, which killed 22 and seriously injured 25, quashed. Whakaari Management Limited, owned by brothers Andrew, James and Peter Buttle appealed the conviction, in which the company was fined more than a million dollars and ordered to pay 4.88 million dollars in reparation to the victims. Natalie Akoorie reports.