Brian Tamaki speaks at a Freedom and Rights Coalition protest in November 2021. (Image: Brett Phibbs)Significant payments made to top defence lawyer Ron Mansfield, KC, around the time Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki was charged with breaching covid rules were “coincidental”, a church trust told the charities regulator.Destiny International Trust, a registered charity at the time, made 11 payments to Mansfield throughout December 2021 and January 2022, an investigation by Charities Services found.Mansfield represented Tamaki and his wife, Hannah, after they were charged with violating covid-19 restrictions by organising and...