The final defendant in the criminal trial over the deadly White Island disaster has been found guilty on one charge in an Auckland court. The company Whakaari Management Limited is owned by the Buttle brothers who inherited White Island and had been licensing other businesses to run tours on the active volcano. On Tuesday, Judge Evangelos Thomas ruled Whakaari Management …
For the first time, the criminal trial into the Whakaari White Island disaster has heard evidence from the three brothers who own the volcano. Asked what steps they took to fully understand the danger posed by the island, Peter Buttle said he and his brothers held "institutional knowledge" gained over more than 40 years of the Buttle family communicating with …