Labour’s tourism spokesman Kelvin Davis has been swift in issuing a strong rebuke as part of a damage limitation exercise following the knife point robbery and assault of three Chinese tourists in Northland. At least we’re not seeing the usual ‘isolated incident’ comment trotted out, so some credit to him for that. Time to get…
from New Zealand Herald 22 August “Impressions of our country have been shattered” “Police say three Chinese tourists who were robbed in the Far North at knifepoint by men they had stopped to help yesterday are “stunned and shocked” at the incident. The attack happened on a stretch of gravel road which runs through Te…
17 AugustIn January of 2008 two particularly brutal and seemingly unprovoked attacks took place in North Shore, Auckland. A young couple Ericka Rancourt, 21, and Oskar Carroll, 25, were minding their own business and quietly walking home in Lake Rd at around 4am on the 15th when they were viciously attacked by a gang of…
19 year old Blake Coleman (photo Manawatu Standard) Source Stuff.co.nz “The phrase “hitting the town to get hammered” has taken on a whole new meaning for a Palmerston North teenager. When Blake Coleman, 19, questioned the ages of a group of young teenagers drinking Woodstocks outside a city bar about midnight on Friday, he was…
In January of 2008 two particularly brutal and seemingly unprovoked attacks took place in North Shore, Auckland. A young couple Ericka Rancourt, 21, and Oskar Carroll, 25, were minding their own business and quietly walking home in Lake Rd at around 4am on the 15th when they were viciously attacked by a gang of men.…
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