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…
On 6 February 2010 we reported on the ridiculous decision to suppress the name of a ‘prominent’ man convicted in Palmerston North Court of downloading more than 300,000 indecent images, many of them of children. Read it here. The man, who lives in the Manawatu and who was caught in an international FBI investigation, was…
Back in December we wrote about how a group of “international tourists” (their nationality was never released) had been attacked and robbed of their car and possessions by a group of people whilst swimming at Kerosene Creek. At the time we said that locals were wary of parking at the Creek and at a number…
Continuing in our series of Migrant Stories: first hand accounts of migrant life in New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. This recent story is from the discussion forum Expatexposed. It tells how grinding penny pinching becomes a way of life in NZ with nothing to compensate it, rather than a short term measure…
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