The journalist who was beaten to death in a violent street attack in New Zealand’s capital has been named as Phillip Cottrell. British media have identified him as being from Scotland where he worked for the BBC. He emigrated to New Zealand six years ago and was a news editor for Radio New Zealand in Wellington. In…
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…
Jahche Broughton (15) who had previously pleaded guilty to the murder of Scottish woman Karen Aim has taken on a new lawyer and has asked to change his plea before sentencing is given out. According to Stuff.co.nz “Legal experts say Broughton’s young age he was 14 at the time of the killing could be used…
Link: Karen Aim Scottish woman Karen Aim was brutally murdered as she walked home alone one night in January last year. The murder, which happened in Taupo in NZ’s North Island, shocked not just the residents of the small town but people all over the world. The incident received international press coverage and brought into…
Security guard says teen defendant showed him bloody bat Source: NZHerald 3 Sept, 2008 “The teenager accused of murdering Scottish tourist Karen Aim allegedly hid the baseball bat he used to kill her under his house and then showed the bloodstained, dented object to a man he knew. Leigh Herewini, a 34-year-old security guard, said…
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