Monday, August 15, 2016

Christine hung out with gangs

Vincent Skeen was found guilty of the manslaughter of 17-year-old Luke Tipene. Photo / Nick Reed/Supplied



Vincent Skeen was found guilty of the manslaughter of 17-year-old Luke Tipene. Photo / Nick Reed/Supplied
The teenager who stabbed a rising rugby league star to death with a broken bottle had racked up 25 offences before he turned 16.
Vincent Angene Skeen, 18, even continued to offended while awaiting trial over the death of 17-year-old Luke Tipene.
Skeen was convicted of manslaughter after a second jury trial last month and was today jailed for five years and two months.


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11694790

Sunday, August 7, 2016

Mail Order Bride





First edition: July 2013 Fiction

ISBN: 978-0-473-25414-8

272 pages.

This book is the embodiment of many issues of the darker side of today’s society. Auckland city is chosen because of her cosmopolitan features, as well as the presence of immigrants, new and old. There are mail order brides from all over the world. This story could happen in any big city in the world.

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Community/2013/10/06/Local-writers-books-to-be-released-on-Oct-12/

" Mail Order Bride published in July 2013, it is about the darker side of today’s urban social issues such as obsession, mail order brides, murder, suicide, mother-daughter rivalry, child pornography, prostitution, modelling, fraud, childhood shenanigans, runaway street kids, anorexia, nervosa and teen pregnancy.