Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of the immigrant experience of New Zealand gathered from locations around the net. Today’s tale follows on from a story from a British plumber which we published yesterday. The following account first appeared on the forum at Expatexposed.com and was written by someone who works in the NZ construction…
Now that the rugby world cup is safely out of the way we’re starting to more coverage of serious crimes against tourists in New Zealand again. A reader has sent us a link to another spate of violent robberies in the small Northland town of Kerikeri. In the first incident a 39-year-old Swedish man was clubbed over the head by…
The trial of the man accused of the murder and rape of British immigrant, Jacqueline Blackbourn, got underway at Auckland Crown Court today. The man has already pleaded guilty to a charge of arson. The Crown said in its opening statement that Jacqueline had been raped, strangled and stabbed to death before being set alight…
New Zealand’s reputation as a safe place to live has taken another knock with the news that a Whangarei supermarket (above) was held up by a man with a shotgun on Monday night. Not the sort of thing you’d expect to happen when you’re queuing up in your slippers to pay for your daily milk…
Were you in New Zealand during the 2011 rugby world cup and were you a victim of crime? We’d like to hear your story, please leave a comment below. Despite warnings to visitors the rugby world cup has provided rich pickings for New Zealand’s criminal element. We’re saddened to hear a number players and journalists…
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