A protester who manoeuvred her kayak in front of a larger vessel in an effort to halt the construction of Waiheke Island’s controversial Marina has been granted a discharge without conviction.
Danielle Amy Tollemache, 35, of Palm Beach, Waiheke, appeared in Auckland District Court today. Judge Kathryn Maxwell seemed to acknowledge Tollemache’s heart was in the right place even if she went about her actions wrongly.
“There appears to be no dispute that the gravity was very much at the lower end,” the judge said. “It was clearly well-intentioned. The protest, from your perspective,…
