The man who chopped down eight pōhutukawa trees with a chainsaw in an Auckland suburb on October 2020, has been remanded on bail while a home detention sentence is considered, reports the Herald. The trees were Auckland City Council’s property and were worth $40,704. The defence lawyer said Alexei Leandios Hodder was highly intoxicated at the time of the incident and was challenged to cut down the trees by an associate.

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