Canadian Tourist Murdered?
Posted by feww on January 31, 2008
[Update, Monday February 4, 2008 ]
According to a report, Canadian tourist killed in mysterious circumstances [murdered?] on a cycling tour in New Zealand last week was a news magazine publisher and community leader in the mountain resort town of Whistler, Canada.
Kathryn Jane Barnett, 49, president, co-owner and publisher of Pique Newsmagazine, was fatally injured when a vehicle, traveling uphill, hit her from behind. Mrs Barnett was an experienced cyclist and was riding well to the left [legal side] of the road.
Initial Report
A Canadian tourist was killed in mysterious circumstances in New Zealand raising the number of incidents of murder, “accidental” death and violent rape in 2008 to over 100 on the day their imbecile police discovered the weighted-down body of another woman in a river.
Initial report at Stuff New Zealand
Links on other tourist murders and background:
Yet Another Victim of New Zealand Tourism (Scottish tourist murdered in New Zealand in the prime of her life)
You Want to Work in New Zealand?
Truth About ‘100% Pure New Zealand’ Advertising Campaign
Stop New Zealand Committing Eco-Terrorism!
Assault victim tells of terrifying ordeal
Increased violence in NZ: What are the tourists coming here for?
Tourist couple kidnapped at gunpoint, robbed, woman raped, husband assaulted .
Men guilty of kidnapping tourist
Skinheads jailed for beating tourist
Tourist abducted and robbed
Backpacker rapist sentenced to 7 years
Tourist abducted and robbed
German Tourist’s Murder was Preventable
English tourist’s campervan set on fire in the carpark
The two kidnappers who beat and raped the Dutch tourist only get 10 and 6 years
Father urges New Zealand pilot to face music over tourist’s death
Indian Student, 22, stabbed to death
Appalling race-hate crimes in New Zealand: Chinese student was battered with beer bottles
A 46-year-old Malaysian woman was raped in Auckland, NZ
South American tourists were beaten and robbed
One in six of Kiwis (New Zealanders) think about suicide [Murder]
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