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New Zealand prosecutor outlines case against Phil Rudd
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 8 December 2014
The prosecutor in the case against Phil Rudd has outlined the charges levelled at the (possibly former) AC/DC drummer. Principally it’s been revealed that the people he is accused of threatening to kill are a former employee and his daughter.
In a statement released on Friday the prosecutor alleged that, on the morning of 26 Sep, Rudd made two incriminating phonecalls – one in which Rudd told a third party “what he wanted done” to his former employee, the second to that man himself in which it is claimed that Rudd “threatened to kill him and his daughter”.
As previously reported, an initial charge of attempting to hire a hitman was dropped due to lack of evidence, but the charge of threatening to kill stands. Rudd is also accused of drug possession, police having apparently found 130 grams of marijuana and 0.7 grams of methamphetamine when they searched the musician’s home in early November.
Rudd denies making either phonecall outlined by the prosecutor, or making threats to kill. Though he apparently has admitted the possession of marijuana.
As also previously reported, Rudd was called back to court last week after getting into a fight with a witness in the case – following a “chance meeting”, his lawyer argued. He was not charged with any further crime, but the judge made an additional condition of Rudd’s bail that he not take any illegal drugs, in order to limit his “erratic behaviour”.
