Siege

On the 7th of May 2009, Senior Constables Len Snee, Grant Diver and Bruce Miller arrived at 41 Chaucer Rd in Napier to serve a search warrant on Jan Molenaar for the growing of cannabis. This was just a routine warrant, something they had done countless times. What was meant to be an ordinary procedure turned into three of New Zealand’s darkest days and ended with one police officer dead, two officers critically injured and a member of the public fighting for his life. In some fifty hours Jan Molenaar made a permanent and devastating imprint upon the national psyche of New Zealand as he changed the lives of individuals, families, a police community, and a city. The siege was one of the worst and unexpected cases of violence both Napier and New Zealand had witnessed and it was all the more shocking because of its ordinary suburban backdrop.

Cast

Mark Mitchinson Jan Molenaar

Darren Young Len Snee

Jon Cummings Lenny Holmwood

Joel Tobeck Sam Hoyle Miriama Smith Delwyn Keefe Alistair Browning Mike O'Leary

Toby Leach Grant Diver

Will Hall Bruce Miller Kirk Torrance Heath Jones Mark Warren Brad Clark Peter Feeney Paul Symonds Nathalie Boltt Vicki Snee

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