The despicable murder of Kyle Whorrall is going to test us
Oh Jesus Christ no…
Teen charged with murder of US student in Auckland bus stop attack
Slain American doctoral student Kyle Whorrall had overcome health challenges and “worked extra hard” to get to where he was, his father has told Stuff.
Whorrall, 33, was attacked at a bus stop on St Johns Rd in Meadowbank, Auckland, on Saturday night. Police say they are still trying to understand the motive for the attack.
A 16-year-old male charged with murder and aggravated robbery in connection with Whorrall’s death appeared in the Auckland District Court on Thursday and was remanded in custody. As he is a youth he has been granted automatic name suppression. His case will be put to the Auckland High Court on May 14.
A 32-year-old woman, charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder, also appeared in the Auckland District Court on Thursday. According to court documents, she allegedly “actively suppressed evidence against [the murder accused] … by selling a Mitsubishi Outlander … in order to enable him to escape after arrest”.
The woman, who was wearing a cropped top and shorts, has been granted interim name suppression and will next appear at Auckland High Court on May 14.
Dear Comrades, I fear this case will really test us as a people.
By all accounts, Kyle Whorrall was one of life’s true blessings.
A kind, gentle man whose fascination in the natural world led him to be a leader in this field of insects.
Kyle represents the best of us, an intelligent human being with the kind of intellectual curiosity that our understanding of the natural world is built upon, that his life and the light he represents was brutally snuffed out by scum for no reason will test us.
Why the fuck these scumbags u-turned into the bus stop, facing the wrong direction so they could jump Kyle in Medowbank of all places demands answers.
Was it a gang initiation?
Was it a case of mistaken identity?
Or was it even worse than those reasons? Was it vile violence netted out for pure shits and giggles?
The fact a 16 year old was involved is heartbreaking on almost every single level.
A stupid kid without the frontal lobes to even comprehend what the fuck they’ve done here has doomed himself in ways he simply doesn’t realise.
You stupid, stupid, stupid child!
The adults involved here need to be punished even more harshly than the kid.
This terrible case will test us.
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The social fabric has been ripped apart.
The New Zealand I grew up in would be unlucky if it had one murder a year.
Now on average we have one murder a week.
The neo-liberal revolution begun in the ’80s by a Labour government has continued unbroken by every government since.
Until these neo-liberal economic reforms are reversed. Things can only get worse.
And now they rwnjs want to put machine guns into circulation.
That woman needs to be given 14 years ,but no doubt she will blame her partner because he rapes and bashes her every day .What motive can there be? for such behaviour ,NONE.
What for, what will that achieve.
The prison system is shit, and costs $100,000 a year for each person to be in there.
All of those locked up should be working, many of them out in the community, imagine here in otautahi we could actually have the two rivers clean if we did this sort of thing.
Lock em up and throw away the key is the view of undeveloped minds.
Where are the photos of Mitchell and key laying flowers at the bus stop where is the outrage from the so called tough on crime government where are the government Auckland MPs with their horror and genuine support for their communities. The answer is nowhere
Mr Bradbury. Apart from preferring not to be addressed as one of your “dear comrades” I agree with you even though you find it necessary to use foul language to describe your outrage.
What way do you show your feelings when not being so stiff-necked Wiremu? You sound very middle class and uppish.
There is no “us” and that’s the problem. Identity politics has broken social cohesion and allowed criminals to play victim and justify anything.
The rule of law breaks when it is not applied evenly.
No doubt meth is involved…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/methamphetamine-use-rises-sharply-in-bay-of-plenty-cocaine-also-up/WAWSDYTCTRDB3K2467O2GVL5MA/
Well done National and your coalition partners, you should be proud. How are those pseudoephedrine sales in chemist shops going now silly Seymour?
So no crime when Labour were in charge .You are so one eyed.
Fuck off Trevor, I’m so neutral I’m parallel. I only post to offer balance to your ridiculous hard right and ridiculous comments. By the way who reintroduced pseudoephedrine sales back on our shelves? I’ll make it easier for your simple brain, it’s not a trick question. And what do you make meth from, again not a trick question?
More crime now though under a tough on crime government aye?
I knew an entomologist ages ago. She showed me the serried rows of moths, beetles, aquatic insects, etc. – all meticulously labeled, one species differentiated from another through minute (to me) differences, so carefully handled with tweezers and preserved in controlled conditions. It was a kind of amazement to see it all – the diversity of things that most of us never notice. “Eternity is in love with the productions of time” – as someone deservedly famous said.
This is a very challenging death.
And the pattern of our times continues: another white supremacist kills some poor unsuspecting brown scholar for no apparent reason.
Excellent comment, so true…
Or we could just wait till the case comes out in court.
Yes lets see instead of frothing at the mouth.
Murder bingo …at least one of the perps (and definitely the 16 yr old) will suffer from SFNS. And additionally there will be the bog standard ” love you mah baby!!” In the courtroom . I give up. Take me back to Japan.