Irish Female Tourist Stabbed While Jogging on Tahunanui Beach, Nelson

New Zealand is often marketed to migrants as being somewhere with a low incidence of crime, a great lifestyle,and above all – safer than where they live now. Nothing could be further from the truth, today we learn that a young woman was stabbed as she jogged along Tahunanui Beach, the main beach in the…

Kaikohe, Kaitaia. New Zealand Communities in Crisis

Update 26 July 2016: 10th homicide in seven years, third knife attack in a week – is Kaitaia the murder capital of NZ? If you’re looking for violent crime, you can pick any town in New Zealand. It isn’t that hard. Until the National led government started interfering with reporting requirements by making “procedural changes…