One Answer To Wellington’s Street Violence

Do you recall at the time of Phillip Cottrell’s murder in Wellington that police were at great pains to emphasise what a safe place the city was? They said that street violence was rare in the city. The day after Mr Cottrell died local newspaper, The Dominion Post,  whose offices are feet away from where Mr Cottrell…

Kaikoura’s Mobs – Street Violence Erupts Again

Last month we wrote about how a group of men from Christchurch on a fishing trip were attacked by a mob of around 30 local youths in Kaikoura. Read Five Arrested In Kaikoura Mob Attack. At the time Kaikoura’s mayor, Winston Gray, said “the incident was not the first against visitors and the community needed to…