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The public has got in behind Wellington police in their hunt for a youth gang believed to be responsible for at least eight attacks involving 10 victims.
"We've had some really good response ... we're getting some really good feedback from the public with our 0800 TIPOFF number," Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Borrell, of Wellington CIB, said today.
The gang savagely 20-year-old Oliver Mace in suburban Newtown earlier this month and attacked five other people the same night.
Mr Mace was bashed so severely he suffered a fractured skull.
They struck again in the central city last Friday night when three people were assaulted.
Mr Borrell said the inquiry was "steaming along".
An inquiry team of 10 - a detective sergeant and nine others - was going through the incidents that were reported
"We haven't made any arrests as yet but we are closing in," said Mr Borrell.
"You can imagine, with eight different offences we've got a variety of witnesses for each of those and there's a process of getting them to look at montages and things like that, and from that we're getting some indication of commonality.
"We have to be sure before we move forward."
Mr Borrell said he was hoping for more progress tomorrow.
The group, made up of between four and seven Maori and Polynesians aged between 16 and 24, was believed to have attacked 10 people in the past seven days.
- NZPA
