Violent crime victims to sue state
At least seven victims of violent crime and their families are set to fight the state for compensation following the example of a man widowed by RSA triple murderer William Bell.
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New Zealand is in the top five of the highest victimization rates among 30 countries surveyed. Others were Ireland, England, Wales and Iceland.
- Nationally, there were 426,380 recorded offences – one crime for every 10 New Zealanders.
- Assistant Commissioner Grant Nicholls: “But violence is clearly our biggest problem . . .”
NZ’s poor violent crime rating ‘no surprise’
- New Zealand is in the top five of the highest victimization rates among 30 countries surveyed. Others were Ireland, England, Wales and Iceland.
- “We are getting a lot more knife attacks, a lot more baseball bat attacks,” officials said. [Really?]
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