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Two men face charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice and giving false evidence to the Court of Lease for a cleanup on a Wellington boarding house.
A Wellington landlord filed a false cleaning bill in the Lease Court following an attempted self-harm by a tenant in his pension, the Crown told a judge.
Wellington District Court Judge Andrew Becroft on Monday began hearing a trial against two men accused of giving false evidence in court and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The two men have had their names suppressed until the end of the trial.
Crown attorney Andrew Britton said a young man had been at a Wellington boarding house in 2015 when he tried to hurt himself.
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After being taken to hospital, two other tenants cleaned the hallway and the next day the man’s mother cleaned the room.
They ended up in the Tenancy Court and the landlord made an invoice for an urgent cleaning service.
The man’s mother reported it to police who investigated.
Britton said emails between the two accused men showed that one was asked to create the bill.
However, it was the case of Crown that no cleaning was done and if so, there was nothing urgent.
The awardee of the Tenure Court asked for more details about the cleaning service.
One of the men created an email address for the service and then sent an email from that account, falsely detailing the cleanup on the board.
They also said the carpet needed to be changed.
They lost in the Tenure Court.
Police found copies of emails about the bill and the creation of an email account at the home of one of the men.
The trial is before a lone judge and is expected to end this week.
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