A quick round up of this morning’s headlines from New Zealand. Jewish grave vandalism charges dropped A man who vowed to fight to the “bitter end” charges of wilfully damaging Jewish graves at an Auckland cemetery has had his case dropped. Honeymoon celebrations cut short by thieves The celebrations of an Australian couple on their…
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…
Its been revealed that three days before Phillip Cottrell was attacked and killed in central Wellington a 23 year old woman was attacked in Newtown Avenue (below) just 4 kms away . She was walking along Newton Road at 9.30 pm on 7 December when she was attacked from behind and put in a headlock.…
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…
A large 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook the top of the South Island and lower North Island at 7.19pm today. The epicentre was 60 km deep and felt strongly in Marlborough and Wellington. A TVNZ report told of how highrise windows were shattered in the capital and apartments being evacuated, police said. “there has been damage…
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