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Reign of the Fourth Reich

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Reign of the Fourth Reich
25 June 2005

The Fourth Reich tortured its enemies and forced a police officer into hiding. What chance did an eccentric West Coast drifter have? Matt Conway delves into the strange life and brutal death of James ‘Janis’ Bambrough.
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News brief · 25 June 2005

Life in prison for South Island neo-Nazi duo

Two former skinhead mates linked to a secretive neo-Nazi gang are beginning life sentences for the murder of a homeless gay man in Westport.

A High Court jury in Greymouth took just four hours yesterday to find Leighton Brian Wilding, 38, of Nelson, and Hayden Brent McKenzie, 28, of Westport, guilty of murder.

The pair strangled and drowned James Bamborough – a 54-year-old eccentric who lived in his car with his two dogs and preferred to be called Janis – after a party in Westport on October 12, 1999.

Former friends Wilding and McKenzie were linked to a white power gang, the Fourth Reich, but turned on each other at the three-week trial, accusing each other of the killing.

News brief · 10 June 2005

Nazis blackmail McKenzie’s mother

Members of the “Nazi-based” Fourth Reich demanded money and silence from the mother of one of the men accused of murdering a homeless gay man in 1999, the High Court in Greymouth was told yesterday. Westport mother Trish Lee, whose son, Hayden Brent McKenzie, has been jointly charged with murdering James Bamborough, said she paid the money and kept quiet about the murder because she feared the gang would harm her family.

News brief · 27 May 2005