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Cabinet minister Stuart Nash is set to come under further pressure amid revelations the Solicitor General had considered prosecuting him for contempt over public comments he had made after the arrest of Eli Epiha in the case of the killing of police constable Matthew Hunt. Newstalk ZB Senior Political correspondent Barry Soper exclusively revealed the earlier occasion, which led to Nash being formally reprimanded for comments he had made on the Mike Hosking Breakfast show in June 2020. Nash resigned as Police Minister yesterday for comments he made to Hosking, in which he said he had once called up Police Commissioner Andrew Coster to discuss a sentence of home detention handed out to a Southland farmer for illegal firearms. Nash told Hosking he had said to Coster that surely police would appeal the sentence. The second, earlier instance revealed today was within days of the fatal shooting of Constable Hunt - and Nash said the police had arrested the man responsible and he hoped he’d get a long prison sentenc