The mother of Libby Templeman, the British school girl strangled in Kerikeri on 1 November 2008, has given evidence at the trial of the boy accused of her assault and murder. Mrs Templeman told of her desperate efforts to find Libby after she failed to answer her text messages on the night she disappeared. She…
Continuing in our series of Migrant Stories: first hand accounts of migrant life in New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. Today’s story is from a migrant on the British expat web forum. In it the poster tells of how they cannot work, how they have had to sell their home and car and…
The uproar over the decision to grant permanent name suppression to a ‘prominent’ man convicted of downloading and distributing indecent images of young girls continued today with a statement from the Sensible Sentencing Trust. Garth McVicar says the judgment has undermined public confidence in the NZ justice system and that it puts criminals ahead of…
The trial of a teenager charged with the murder of British school girl Liberty Rose Templeman has got underway at the High Court in Whangarei. The boy, who was 14 at the time that Libby died, has entered not guilty pleas to the charges of murder and indecent assault. Various sources have said that the…
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