Thanks to Moonlight, a regular contributor to this blog who sent us the following message about comments left on a Daily Telegraph report about the death of Scottish journalist Phillip Cottrell. Mr Cottrell was mugged as he walked home through the streets of Wellington, capital city of New Zealand, in daylight. He’d been working a…
Following on from our post Tourists Continue To Be Targets For Criminals In New Zealand on 2 December, we’re appalled to hear the news that more tourists have been targetted by New Zealand’s bogan criminals. New Zealand has one of the OECD’s most rapidly widening gaps between rich and poor, unfortuantely crime against tourists is just one manifestation…
We were saddened to hear that another tourist has fallen foul of New Zealand’s criminal element. It looks like word still isn’t getting out about the high levels of crime in New Zealand. In today’s Herald “A tearful Chilean tourist has had the laptop computer containing her life’s work stolen – barely a kilometre away…
The level and value of fraud continues to increase significantly in New Zealand with $100 million dollars worth of it in the last six months, according to a press release by KPMG. The majority of it – $65 million dollars – was money stolen from investors. As before, managers remain the greatest risk to a…
In the week that the NZ government made a surprise announcement about a drop in the rate of reported crime, and murders (note how the manslaughter figures weren’t mentioned) a group of Northland primary school kids took to the streets to protest about crime in their neighbourhood. From the Northern Advocate A youth hikoi through…
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