CCTV shows person taking mag

A large number of copies of a student magazine that published abusive emails from an under-fire landlord have disappeared from stands.

A person has been captured on CCTV removing copies of this week’s edition of Critic from the University of Otago campus, with the Proctor now investigating the incident.

The identity of the person has not been made public, but it is understood to be a man and a ‘‘non student’’.

The incident comes after the magazine’s latest cover story took aim at a landlord. The magazine cover showed an email from landlord Karen Brown urging the student magazine in capital letters to ‘‘Remove your filthy stinking lying b .... -whining bulls... story’’.

Brown, who lives in Dunedin, said yesterday afternoon that she did not have any knowledge of anyone taking copies of the magazine.

The Critic story detailed a 2018 Tenancy Tribunal decision that ruled a property Brown owned on Heriot Row to be a boarding house.

The ruling, which was covered by Critic at the time, allowed a tenant to get out of his fixed-term lease, and prompted an email from Brown demanding the magazine remove the 2018 article from its website or action would be taken.

This week’s story included abusive emails allegedly sent from Brown to Critic and to tenants.

Brown told Stuff the article was ‘‘just lies’’.

She denied sending abusive emails to Critic.

Critic editor Charlie O’Mannin estimated between 1000 and 1500 copies had gone missing from stands around campus this week – about a quarter of the print run.