Back in February we wrote about the killing of Christchurch pensioner Gaynor White, and of how her murder highlighted mental health issues in New Zealand. Shaun Skilling, the man who battered to death the 62 year old widow in her own home, was said to have had a history of mental health problems. When his…
Yesterday we mentioned that some arrests had been made following the savage attack on a group of young men who were visiting Kaikoura on a fishing trip on Friday . Today the press is publishing details of the arrests, so far at least five people have been charged out of a group of around thirty…
(for ongoing updates to this story click HERE) Remember how the Palmerston North Wikipedia page was censored to remove references to crime because it was making overseas investors and professionals shy away from moving to the town?; and of how gangs are now euphemistically called “groups” in some news reports?; and how no police statistics…
Two separate stories about groups of school kids smoking cannabis have made the news recently. The cases highlight how widespread the problem is within the community in New Zealand and how inconsistently the punishment is dealt with by schools, time for a national strategy to deal more effectively with drug and alcohol use in schools…
New Zealand’s violent crime epidemic continues with yesterday’s gun point robbery at a Palmerston North dairy (corner shop) by four youths in their mid to late teens. It follows Sunday’s robbery of a New Plymouth dairy by a gang of five teenagers and this morning’s Armed Offenders Squad call-out to a sighting of an armed…
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