NZ Teachers Facing More Abuse

We’ve often written about both youth and school violence on this blog because it’s increasing in both severity and prevalence, it affects migrants with school age children and those who move to NZ to take up teaching positions. It also has a big impact on the local communities in which migrants live. 777 teachers were…

Another Savage Attack In Tauranga

Days after Mary Loader, a 65 year old grandmother, was left critically injured in a random bottling attack in Tauranga (see Tauranga grandmother in coma after bottle attack) a 16 year old youth has sustained serious leg injuries in a fight outside the town’s 10 pin bowling alley on Friday night. The NZ Herald stated…

Theo Kriel’s Sentence May Be Appealed By Solicitor General – Updated x2

(scroll to bottom for update) The following notification appeared in the Northern Advocate, 11 April 2010 “The Solicitor General is considering whether to appeal the 11-and-a-half year jail term handed down to a Kerikeri teenager convicted of murdering schoolgirl Liberty Templeman. Whangarei Crown prosecutor Mike Smith sent a request to Wellington asking for a possible…