17 Year Old Arrested For Mount Roskill Savage Rape

Mount Roskill Intermediate school We’re relieved to hear that a suspect has been arrested in relation to the savage beating and rape of woman in Mount Roskill. The 27 year woman old was attacked as she walked home from work through the grounds of Mount Roskill Intermediate school on the afternoon of  17 January 2012…

NZ Not A Walk In The Park – updated

Update: 21 year old Rotorua baker Rawiri James Samuel and an un-named 20 year old male have been charged with murder and Two youths aged 14 and 15  were later charged with assault in connection with the death in Kuirau Park. Police have retrieved property belong to the deceased man, Roman Henry Skorek, and have searched…

Kaikoura. Weak Justice Fails To Curb Crime Problem

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…

Ballooning Victims Named

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…