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No plea: Rachel Faul
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The Queenstown woman allegedly involved in a brutal kidnapping will spend Christmas – and the next three months – behind bars.
Rachel Maree Faul, 20, reappeared in Queenstown District Court today for an application for bail.
She has spent the past three nights in custody facing charges of kidnapping, aggravated wounding and dangerous driving after an incident last Saturday.
Her arrest came after a 28-year-old Cromwell man was allegedly set-upon by a balaclava-clad group, some wielding a machete and a meat cleaver, at the Crown Range Road intersection on State Highway 6. The man was then bundled into a car driven at speed and ejected from the vehicle at Chartres Green in Arrowtown.
No plea was entered in court today.
Police opposed Faul’s bail application, made by her lawyer Jonathan Eaton. Judge Raoul Neave refused the application and suppressed all details surrounding his reasons.
Faul will be kept at Christchurch Women’s Prison till February 28, when a post-committal conference is scheduled.
Judge Neave did grant leave to make a new application for bail as the investigation progresses.
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