Barry Young appears in court 11 December 2025
Click here to return home UPDATED, 13 DECEMBER, 2025 On Thursday the 11th December at about 9:45am, Barry Young made his long awaited return to the Wellington District Court in front of a crowd of around 100 people. Mark Freeman summarised the day. Whistleblower Barry Young says he’s not trying to break the law or harm anyone: he’s trying to do the right thing. Mr Young appeared in the Wellington District Court on Thursday and Friday in his case, in which a judge will determine whether his leaking of anonymized mortality data related to the Covid-19 vaccine is protected under legislation. It’s a test case for the Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Act 2022. Mr Young is the former administrator of one of Health New Zealand’s payperdose Covid vaccination databases, and claims the data showed a sharp rise in deaths after people were vaccinated. Before the hearing started, Mr Young told an enthusiastic and noisy crowd of well over 100 supporters that with the truth he will not lose. “I will force them to see that our people are dying and we need to stop this horrible, horrible vaccination. We need to end it right now.” He has a right to do the right thing, he said. “The Protected Disclosures Act says that by doing the right thing I am allowed immunity. I am not to be retaliated against. So why are we here? We’re here because they retaliated.” “We have to expose this. We have to show the world that this should not be happening. And this is corruption. This is breaking an act of Parliament, and it’s happening in real time before your eyes. The fact is I made a legitimate protected disclosure. Under the terms of the act, I ticked every single box. I was allowed to disclose it, and they retaliated immediately.” Health New Zealand have confirmed they never once looked at his data, he said. At the end of the second day of the case, Mr Young’s lawyer Sue Grey told supporters the case is about whether the whistleblowers’ act applies to normal people who work for the government who disclose information in good faith or whether they have to be a professional who does a complicated legal or epidemiological analysis. The act was made to facilitate whistleblowing, she said. “There was no dissent. All of the political parties recognised that there should be considerable protection for whistleblowers, and much more than there had been so they felt safe.” This is the first case that’s tested the act, Ms Grey said, adding that the Crown has indicated it’s likely to appeal if it gets a decision it doesn’t like.” “The next steps are basically clarifying exactly what evidence is relevant and then the judge clarifying exactly what issues he wants legal submissions on and making a time frame for when that has to be done. It’s going to take till the end of January to get through that process, and then it will normally be a month or so for submissions after that.” UPDATED, 23 NOVEMBER, 2025 At 9:30am Thursday 11th December, 2025, Barry Young will be making a long awaited return to the Wellington District Court defending charges for releasing data related to the New Zealand Covid Vaccine Rollout. The former Ministry of Health worker who built the database (pay per dose) that monitored and showed excess deaths during the covid vaccine rollout, is being charged by the New Zealand Police after a complaint by Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand) led to an investigation by the New Zealand police, resulting in Young being charged by the police with “accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes.” NZ Police acting on evidence? The complaining agency itself (Te Whatu Ora) initially said the data “appeared to have been anonymised.” This suggests that the data publicly released did not obviously include easily readable personal identifiers and therefore raises questions over why the Police have initiated charges of “accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes”. When: Thursday 11th December, 2025 Where: Wellington District Court: Address: 49 Ballance Street, Wellington Central, Wellington FreeNZ put up a 4 part series investigating the covid vaccine data you can find part one here Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 ALLEGATIONS The allegation is that Barry Young unauthorisedly accessed and downloaded a large volume of vaccination-related data from Te Whatu Ora’s systems, then published the data online (on an overseas website). The leaked data reportedly included information about individuals — including vaccinators and possibly vaccinated people — and triggered a data breach affecting thousands. The offence he is charged with carries a maximum penalty of seven years’ imprisonment. LEGAL STATUS AND PLEA Young pleaded not guilty in December 2023. A trial has been requested — Young elected jury trial. Liz Gunn interview with Barry Young Liz Gun sat down with Barry Young to discuss matters ahead of his court hearing in Wellington on December 11, 2025. Click here for video
Barry Young Trial
06 May, 2025 What’s going on? Ministry of Health whistleblower Barry Young is currently facing criminal charges related to the release of patient information connected to the Covid Vaccine Rollout beginning in 2021. His defence is that he was exercising his right as a whistleblower because to his judgment he viewed serious adverse effects of the COVID-19 Vaccine, while the Crown’s prosecution lies on the accusation that Barry released sensitive data that should not have been released. Where we stand: There is now ample evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine caused harm to large amounts of people, including death – as the New Zealand Government and Media remain largely silent while still encouraging New Zealanders to receive the Covid Injection. We see this as very suspicious behaviour from both Media and Government, and therefore we believe that the information Barry revealed deserves proper respect and investigation, rather than Barry himself. Furthermore, Barry anonymised the data that he released, meaning that no names of any patients were disclosed among his findings. We believe the Crown are endeavouring on a wild goose chase. What is strange? Mainstream Media have been eerily silent in their reporting of this case in recent months. Are they avoiding giving it publicity because they know they were in the wrong by going against Young? SOME IDEAS OF WHAT YOU CAN DO: Support Barry Young – Barry’s court appearances are a great opportunity to show support for someone who dared question the safety of the Covid Vaccine. By showing up to his court appearances in person, you are sending a message to the Crown that Barry does not stand alone, and that their decisions carry weight that will not go away any time soon. Push the message – Whether it is sign holding at supermarkets or on roadsides, by demonstrating that yes, the covid vaccine has caused damage and that despite this the Government and Media have largely ignored it, you are reaching into the subconscious minds of those kiwis out there who have held suspicions, but haven’t quite allowed themselves to fully embrace the idea. Bumper stickers – “Yes, the COVID Vaccine killed people” or “Yes, COVID-19 was indeed a Scam” are two types of stickers you can slap on the back of your car… or anywhere else you can creatively imagine. Facing two Crown prosecutors and new charges, Barry feels up against a rather unfair system. Please click the video link below for Barry’s read on the situation. Credit to John Ansell for the footage. Click HERE