AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd in court: procuring a murder + drugs!

[Mrs G Norris]

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd will appear in the Tauranga District Court this afternoon charged with attempting to procure a murder.

The charge was laid after police raided the drummer's home on the Tauranga waterfront at Matua this morning.
He is also charged with possession of methamphetamine, possession of cannabis and threatening to kill.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/10711053/AC-DC-drummer-Phil-Rudd-on-procuring-murder-charge

 

[drsleuth]

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...r-in-new-zealand/story-e6frfmq9-1227114544111

He's looking way older than 60!!



Do they allow cameras in court in NZ??

 

[Steely Dan]

This will be very interesting after the facts come out.

 

[Marg from Oz]

He looks like he's heavily into booze as well as drugs. I'm nearly ten years older than him and looked in the mirror. No, don't look as old as he does.

 

[PastTense]

He's out on bail:

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd, 60, has been charged in New Zealand on Thursday (November 6) in a bizarre case in which prosecutors claim that the longtime member of the “Highway To Hell” band allegedly hired a hitman to kill two unidentified men.

Rudd (born Phillip Witschke), who was busted for marijuana possession in 2010 in New Zealand, is also facing a charge of threatening to kill, as well as charges of possession of methamphetamine and marijuana. Rudd entered no plea to the charges, according to CNN and was let out on bail until November 27 and was ordered to have no contact with the man he allegedly hired.

http://www.mtv.com/news/1988950/acdc-drummer-phil-rudd-hitman-drugs-arrest/

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

'Dirty deeds done dirt cheap'.

no kidding!

 

[Steely Dan]

'Dirty deeds done dirt cheap'.

no kidding!

:laughcry:

I emailed a friend that article and he just sent that exact thing. I was coming here to post it, but you beat me to it.

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

:laughcry:

I emailed a friend that article and he just sent that exact thing. I was coming here to post it, but you beat me to it.

I, I, I just couldn't resist.... now my head is filled with men wearing tube socks. scary

 

[Mrs G Norris]

[video=youtube;H389yLb87fo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H389yLb87fo[/video]

 

[~Lyric~]

WoW, Just WoW.

My husbands favorite band.

 

[brighidin]

I'm thunderstruck by this news.

 

[Mrs G Norris]

He's on the highway to hell ..

 

[sleepinoz]

Attempting to procure a murder charge against AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd withdrawn

The Crown solicitor said there was insufficient evidence to justify the charge, Mr Mabey said.

Mr Mabey said Rudd would defend the threatening to kill charge.

He described the drugs possession charges as minor.

The Crown Solicitor's office confirmed the charge had been withdrawn.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...-withdrawn-20141107-11ij16.html#ixzz3ILP7HPpy

 

[Mrs G Norris]

Hells bells!!

Got lucky with a great lawyer there!

 

[zoomom]

High Voltage Rock n Roll.

He needs to stay away from Sin City......

 

[Steely Dan]

Things must work very differently in New Zealand. I can't imagine American people being charged with soliciting murder without it on tape. I'm sure it's happened at some time, but not with a high profile person. JMO

 

[brighidin]

Judge sure had some Big Balls to dismiss those charges.


....yeah, I went there.

 

[zwiebel]

drummer Phil Rudd pleaded guilty in a New Zealand court Tuesday to a charge of threatening to kill a man who used to work for him. He also pleaded guilty to possessing methamphetamine and marijuana.

Rudd faces up to seven years in prison on the threatening to kill charge, although his lawyer Craig Tuck said the prosecution case boils down to an angry phone call, and he is seeking a remedy that would involve no legal consequences for Rudd.

Rudd acknowledged in a court summary of facts that he'd offered large amounts of cash, vehicles and a house to an associate after asking him to have the victim "taken out" and that he'd also directly said to the victim he was going to kill him.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-acdc-phil-rudd-pleads-guilty-20150421-story.html

 

[zwiebel]

AC/DC ex? drummer Phil Rudd has been sentenced to 8 months' jail after pleading guilty to threatening to kill a man and his daughter, and to drug charges.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/28720043/ac-dc-drummer-phil-rudd-due-to-learn-fate/?cmp=fb

Whoah! Either I misread or they changed the article. 8 months HOME detention. No jail at all. He has previous convictions too.

 

[Arnie M]

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I am not an AC-DC music fan but always liked the way Phil lived life to the fullest with cars and helicopters

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And then after a bit of Meth ....





Rudd appeared in front of Judge Thomas Ingram for sentencing after pleading guilty to possession of cannabis and methamphetamine and one charge of threatening to kill

Earlier, the court was told Rudd's actions were the result of methamphetamine psychosis and he was addicted to the drug.

He got a bit of a break , only 8 months of home detention

Friggin Meth has sure destroyed a lot of people.