Two Nelson teenagers have admitted beating a 16-year old schoolmate in an hour long ordeal before ordering him to strip to his underpants and lie in a crucifixion position while they mocked him and took photographs. The victim lost consciousness during the attack at a Nelson school last month, in which he was punched, kicked, [...]
The NZ Herald reports: “Violent Xbox video games are being fingered by a top police officer as a possible cause of rising violence among young people. “Superintendent Bill Harrison, national manager of police youth services, says youth violence rates have jumped in the past two or three years throughout the Western world, coinciding with the [...]
Timaru drink-driving – all in the family
Three members of a South Canterbury family were booked for drink-driving on the same night. At 12.15 am on Saturday, a boy, 15, was stopped and arrested for drink-driving on State Highway 1 near Timaru. He blew 529 micrograms per litre of breath, more than three-and-a-half times the youth limit. He was taken to Timaru police [...]