Kiwi artist found bankrupt had boldly gone and bought ticket to space – Stuff

A Kiwi artist who booked a space flight, later spent almost the entire US$100,000 (NZ$162,000) refunded ticket despite bankruptcy proceedings against him.

The facts of this case are, to my mind, unique, associate judge Owen Paulsen said, about the recent case before the High Court of Dunedin.

He was not wrong.

The case involved a former Dunedin resident, Michael Craig Scott, who is also known as Makoure (and sometimes as Makouri) Scott, who used to live at Careys Bay but had lived overseas over the last decade.

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