Meet a Green candidate

Stuff reports:

A former political figure involved in a late night bar incident can now be named.

Jack Brazil, a former Green Party candidate and high profile activist, appeared for sentencing before community magistrate Sarah Steele in the Dunedin District Court on Friday afternoon.

Brazil, 33, was originally charged with assault, behaving disorderly and escaping police custody following an incident at a central city Dunedin bar on Friday, November 27, according to court documents.

Our Jack has done more than merely assaulting someone and escaping police custody.

His lawyer, Sarah Saunderson-Warner confirmed he was no longer seeking name suppression, but opposed in court media applications.

She noted Brazil’s volunteer work, and his wider work in the community.

Despite not working, he “was not opposed to community work”.

Of course he doesn’t have a job!

Brazil, a former Green Party candidate and high profile New Zealand activist, was shot in the liver on Littlebourne Rd, near Otago Boys’ High School, in the early hours of April 16, in 2023.

That investigation remains open, with police believing the shooting was an “isolated incident”.

There is a story there waiting to come out.

He left New Zealand in the months after the shooting, and was charged with the burglary of a Footlocker store in central Dublin during riots in the city.

The Greens really do pick therm well!