According to various news reports a 14 year old youth has been arrested in connection with yesterday’s sex attack in Mangere. There have been a spate of attacks on young women and girls in the area (see yesterday’s blog post) which include the rape of an 8 year old child. Police aren’t saying if the…
Police are hunting for a sex attacker who has victimised a number of girls and young women in Mangere, South Auckland. The assaults all took place in and around a walkway between Cape Road and Mascot Avenue over the last 2 months, the last one on October 22 was when a young mother was attacked…
From an article in The Press by Ian Steward “Christchurch’s boy racers have again hit the headlines overseas, with a German magazine saying residents are afraid of car-based “terrorism“. Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker said the article was an accurate reflection of Christchurch: “It’s a problem we have. It is something that happens here and it’s…
Despite safety warnings and pleas from police and motoring organisations for people to take care over the holiday weekend at least seven people have died and many more have been injured in 16 separate incidents, some of them from countries such as Germany and Saudi Arabia. The death toll however wasn’t as bad as it…
We recall an article back in July in the Otago Daily Times which covered the “theft” of Rata Wood from living trees on Pigeon Island. At the time there was a justifiable outcry about the wood having been hacked from the trees as the island is supposed to be one of the few places where…
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