Names Of Attacked Tourists Released, Name of Attacker Suppressed.

The New Zealand press has released the names of the two women attacked by a man near Franz Josef over the weekend: Niki Honda and Michaela Brandl. Bizarrely, in another one of those ‘only in NZ’ moments the man arrested for their assault, and for the rape and murder of Christchurch woman Amy Farrall, has had…

New Zealand Brutal Place for Women and Tourists. Amy Farrall, Niki Honda, Michaela Brandl et al…updated

Another sad reminder today that New Zealand continues to be a brutally unsafe place for women and tourists, whilst Christchurch has a hard time living down its reputation as the nation’s murder capital. Until the National led government recently started interfering with reporting requirements by making “procedural changes that wiped thousands of crimes off the…