Two Australian tourists were robbed at knife point in Te Puke yesterday only hours after they’d arrived from Melbourne. The attack is just the latest of a number of brazen attacks on visitors to New Zealand who are often seen as easy targets. See other blog posts about tourist attacks in New Zealand and tourist…
The man who raped a French tourist at gunpoint in May (see foot of this link) was found guilty yesterday. Teiro Ngaa Kitai, a scrap metal dealer, pleaded guilty yesterday on three charges of sexually violating the 24 year old experienced traveller who had safely hitched his way through Australia and Canada without incident. The…
nz.news.yahoo.com “A tourist has been subjected to what police describe as a very serious and alarmingly brazen sex attack in the Eastern Bay of Plenty town of Opotiki. Two men forced their way into the 22-year-old’s bedroom last night and both sexually violated her while other people were in the house. Police say the other…
Labour’s tourism spokesman Kelvin Davis has been swift in issuing a strong rebuke as part of a damage limitation exercise following the knife point robbery and assault of three Chinese tourists in Northland. At least we’re not seeing the usual ‘isolated incident’ comment trotted out, so some credit to him for that. Time to get…
from New Zealand Herald 22 August “Impressions of our country have been shattered” “Police say three Chinese tourists who were robbed in the Far North at knifepoint by men they had stopped to help yesterday are “stunned and shocked” at the incident. The attack happened on a stretch of gravel road which runs through Te…
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