A raw, revealing and powerful account of life inside, as told by prison inmates.
ANNA LEASK was born and raised in Canterbury. She has worked for
the New Zealand Herald since 2008 and is currently a senior
reporter, covering crime and justice for the daily newspaper as
well as for the Weekend Herald and Herald on Sunday.
Her most notable investigations include the death of Auckland
teenager Christie Marceau, who was stabbed to death in her own home
by a man on bail for kidnapping and assaulting her two months
earlier; the Opaheke 'bedroom murders', in which John Mowat gunned
down his ex-girlfriend and her new partner before taking his own
life in an Auckland forest; the reinvestigation of Arthur Allan
Thomas, 43 years after the double murders for which he served nine
years in prison before being pardoned; and the Christchurch 'House
of Horrors' murderer Jason Somerville, who killed his wife and
buried her under his East Christchurch house a year after doing the
same to his neighbour Tisha Lowery.
Leask covered the Pike River Mine disaster in 2010, the 2011
Canterbury earthquakes, Fiji's Cyclone Winston in early 2016, and
travelled to Gallipoli in 2015 to cover the centenary of the Anzac
landings. She won a Canon Media Award for crime and justice
reporting in 2014.
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