Emily's killer jailed for life By Staff reporter and agencies
5:30 AM Wednesday May 23, 2012
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10807750Few here in NZ could nave missed seeing or reading of Emily Longley's murder and the subsequent trial of her murderer.
There is an aspect of this case that troubles me - how the good intentions and actions of parents sometimes have unintended bad consequences in their families.
Both sets of parents in this case seem to have been (in hindsight) doing what they think is "the best" for their troubled children... the Turner parents in covering up for their son and the decision of the Longleys to divert their daughter from having got in with the "wrong crowd" at schools in NZ, apparently by arranging to send her to UK relatives to continue her studies where she obviously continued the unwise choice of associates.
It must be doubly hard to avoid recriminations where parents who have separated have to come together in such circumstances
reminds me of the case years ago where desperate parents had used a form of tough love and delivered their son into the hands of police. He was picked up and being transported in a police van with another occupant who killed him while on the trip to the police station.
and the recent tragedy of the Manakau Harbour dinghy sinking, where the mother said she blamed herself for having just bought the dinghy as a gift for the father.I hope all those parents will have been able to move on from the realisation of the fact that their good intentions had such bad outcomes.