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.
Mark Mitchinson
as Jan Molenaar
Darren Young
as Len Snee
Jon Cummings
as Lenny Holmwood
Joel Tobeck
as Sam Hoyle
Miriama Smith
as Delwyn Keefe
Alistair Browning
as Mike O'Leary
Toby Leach
as Grant Diver
Will Hall
as Bruce Miller
Kirk Torrance
as Heath Jones
Mark Warren
as Brad Clark
Peter Feeney
as Paul Symonds
Nathalie Boltt
as Vicki Snee
