For background to this story read our Turangi Campsite Attack posts. The Sunday Star times reported today that the 16 year old youth, who admitted he’d raped and beaten the five year old Belgian girl at Camp Habitat in Turangi, has “gang connections” and that the family are “rotten apples” The youth may also have…
We’ve often blogged about the small tourist township of Kaikoura and its reputation for violence and crime. Tourists have been hospitalised by marauding mobs, visitors from Christchurch beaten and kidnapped, seals clubbed to death and vacationing US soldiers robbed. Then there was the immigrant couple, Ms Irvine-Boag 54, and her partner, Tony Neumann, 53, who…
We’d like to convey our condolences once again to the family and friends of those who lost their lives in yesterday’s hot air balloon tragedy in Clareville. Police have just released a list of the victims names, they are Hot air balloon pilot Lance Hopping, aged 53 of Masterton. Husband and wife Howard and Diana…
Update: 23 February 2012. Balloon may’ve not been airworthy and urgent checks of all of New Zealand’s hot air balloons has been recommended Carterton tragedy Balloon airworthiness questioned The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has launched an urgent inquiry following “serious” findings of a report into the Carterton balloon tragedy. The balloon, which crashed in Carterton…
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