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 Bay Chronicle is carrying a story about a group of teens planning a memorial to murdered British teenager, Liberty Templeman, who died at the hands of a youth in Kerikeri in 2008. “To fundraise for the memorial, they plan to hold a concert on October 16 at The Centre, where Libby performed as a…
(scroll to bottom for update) The following notification appeared in the Northern Advocate, 11 April 2010 “The Solicitor General is considering whether to appeal the 11-and-a-half year jail term handed down to a Kerikeri teenager convicted of murdering schoolgirl Liberty Templeman. Whangarei Crown prosecutor Mike Smith sent a request to Wellington asking for a possible…
Clio Francis of the Sunday Star Times has written a feature on the treatment of teenage murderer Theo Kriel who was recently sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of British schoolgirl Liberty Templeman in the small Northland town of Kerikeri (see posts tagged Libby Templeman) and of how he was living in a house…
An petition has been started on Petitiononline.com calling for justice for Liberty Rose Templeman, the 15 year old schoolgirl who was brutally murdered and sexually assaulted in Kerikeri, New Zealand on 1 November 2008. Her attacker, a youth who was 14 at the time of her death, was sentenced to life imprisonment and must serve…
