A man has been sentenced to a three year prison sentence for a kidnapping three female tourists, all in their 20s. Late last year, repeat offender Sherb Junior Tamati (32) attracted the women to his flat in Taumarunui with promise of work, padlocked the front door, and threatened them with a knife attached to…
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…
New Zealand police say they have recovered the body of a man from a hot pool at Kuirau Park, opposite Rotorua hospital on Ranolf Street. The body was spotted by a tourist who notified the police yesterday afternoon. Our regular readers may recall that Kuirau Park is an open stretch of municipal parkland containing geothermal mud pools surrounded…
One of the victims of the Christchurch tourist assault we wrote about 3 days ago has been named as British backpacker Nicholas Aubertin, aged 24. Nick was in the country on a year long working holiday. Unfortunately New Zealand is living up to its reputation for brutal and violent attacks on overseas visitors. Nicholas…
Etienne Lemieux and Louis-Vincent Lessard are two 23 year old French Canadians, students of the Université de Montréal Industrial Design. According to CBC News the men were last seen at The Base Backpackers Hostel in Queenstown on July 6. They checked in on July 5 and had booked in for one night only. The pair…
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