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CBS News
03-06-2025
- General
- CBS News
Colorado's Boulder Jewish Community Center provides resources to community after attack
The Boulder Jewish Community Center is offering resources to the Colorado community after Sunday's attack, where 12 people were injured at a rally calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza. One suspect has been arrested, accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at members of the group Run for Their Lives on Pearl Street Mall in downtown Boulder. Crime scene tape surrounds the area on Pearl Street in Boulder where a man attacked people with Molotov cocktails. CBS Boulder JCC has a special section on its website that details victim support and community resources, as well as this statement from Boulder's Jewish community: As we continue to process the horrific attack on members of our community during Sunday's Boulder Run for Their Lives walk, we wanted to share some important updates. First and foremost, we continue to hold the victims and their loved ones in our hearts. We are praying for their recovery and holding space for our entire Jewish community during this time of heightened fear and insecurity. While some of our community leaders are observing Shavuot, it remains important for us to share these critical updates during the Chag due to the urgent and exceptional nature of the circumstances. Boulder JCC Boulder JCC Some of the resources include mental health support, information about the suspect and those injured in the attack, as well as information about a community vigil and the Boulder Jewish Festival. Coming Together: A Community Vigil, hosted by the Boulder Jewish Community, is scheduled for June 4 at the Boulder JCC starting at 5 p.m. for a time for connection with the program beginning at 5:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. For those who wish to join remotely, they are asked to register online. The Boulder Jewish Festival is scheduled for Sunday, June 8, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
RNZ News
25-05-2025
- RNZ News
'Our beautiful darling': Three-year-old to be farewelled around the same time a man is due to appear in court for her murder
Three-year-old Catalya Remana Tangimetua-Pepene, known as Remana, is being farewelled in Ngararatunua, near Whangārei. Photo: Supplied A 3-year-old Northland child is due to be buried this afternoon around the same time a man is due in court charged with her murder. The 45-year-old man will appear in the Kaikohe District Court on Monday charged with assaulting a child sometime between 1 and 30 April, and with murdering the same child on 21 May. Meanwhile, Eternal Tides Funeral Services has advised that "our beautiful darling" - Catalya Remana Tangimetua-Pepene - was being farewelled today at Te Paea Marae, just north of Whangārei, starting at 10am. The toddler, known to close family as Remana, would be buried at the nearby St James Church cemetery in Ngāraratunua. Emergency services were called to a home on Tawanui Road, in Kaikohe, about 6.15pm last Wednesday, where they found the girl unresponsive. Police said she could not be saved, despite medical treatment at the scene. Police investigating her death initially treated it as unexplained but announced the arrest late on Sunday. The man, who cannot be named before he has appeared in court, is due before a judge on early Monday afternoon. Detective Senior Sergeant Christan Fouhy said Victim Support was supporting the whānau and local community following the tragedy. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
21-05-2025
- Health
- RNZ News
Victim Support steps aside as suicide bereavement service
Photo: 123RF A new provider for a national suicide bereavement service as been appointed after Victim Support decided not to renew its contract in order to focus on victims of crime. Health New Zealand has appointed Te Rau Ora, a Māori-focused mental health and addiction organisation, to provide Haurahi Ora - National Interim Bereavement Triage and Coordination Service from 1 July until 31 December. Victim Support's contract will end on 30 June. Victim Support chief executive James McCulloch said he advised Health NZ of its decision not to renew its contract in February. "Victim Support was founded to support victims of crime. Over time, we also stepped in to provide suicide bereavement support where gaps existed. "While our team has made a meaningful difference in this space, the landscape has changed. There are now a growing number of specialist providers who are better positioned to offer support." Te Rau Ora has provided suicide prevention and postvention services with a te ao Māori focus for more than 20 years, Te Rau Ora innovation director May Leanne Pritchard told RNZ. "We acknowledge and cater for all ethnicities and cultures, including our gay and Muslim communities," Pritchard said. She could not comment on Health NZ's appointment process but said her organisation was approached and asked to submit a proposal to run the service in February. Health NZ said the appointment of Te Rau Ora was an "interim solution" given the short timeframes involved. "While Te Rau Ora has a focus on Māori suicide prevention, as an organisation they have the necessary population networks, relationships, and community connections to be able to provide an interim solution," Health NZ Hauora Māori service head of service development Jade Sewell said. "In the coming months as part of the reconfiguration of the current suicide prevention services there will be a design phase and then advertising via GETS for new suicide postvention services will occur." Pritchard said the name, Haurahi Ora, was gifted to to the service and referred to "the journey from darkness to light". The appointment of a new provider without a formal tender process has raised some eyebrows in the sector. Yellow Brick Road, which provides mental health support for families, said it had also been approached by Health NZ about providing a national service but had not had any communication since. "After initially being approached by HNZ about our interest and capacity to extend our current support to whānau, we didn't have any further response when we offered to discuss what our role could be and possible alternative models. We are not aware of any formal consultation or expression of interest process having taken place for a new contract for suicide postvention service provision," Yellow Brick Road chief executive John Moore said in a statement to RNZ. Health NZ did not respond to questions about what procurement process was followed for the interim appointment. If it is an emergency and you feel like you or someone else is at risk, call 111. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
CTV News
13-05-2025
- CTV News
Murder trial begins for Bradford man accused of stabbing Good Samaritan 20 times
The trial of Brandon Aaron, accused of fatally stabbing a Good Samaratin 20 times, has begun in Barrie.
The Guardian
25-04-2025
- The Guardian
Martin Wright obituary
My father, Martin Wright, who has died aged 94, spent much of his working life advocating for changes to the UK's prison system. As director of the Howard League for Penal Reform from 1971 to 1984 he put pressure on successive governments to improve prison conditions and find alternatives to incarceration. He was also a pioneer in the field of restorative justice, and wrote influential books on the subject, including Justice for Victims and Offenders (1996), as well as many articles for magazines and journals that brought the concept to countries where it was previously unheard of. Later he worked for the Victim Support charity as a policy officer until his retirement in 1994. Martin was born in Stoke Newington, north London, to Clifford, a town clerk, and Rosalie (nee Mackenzie), a librarian, and was educated at Repton school in Derbyshire, after which he went to Jesus College, Oxford University. In 1953 he met Lisa Nicholls, a vicar's daughter, at a party thrown by a mutual friend in Oxford. His hand was bandaged, and when Lisa asked why, he explained that he had been trying to milk a deer in the University Parks in an attempt to make cheese, and it had bitten him. They were married in 1957 and had six children, of whom two – George and Sophie – died young. Lisa later became head of drama at Tulse Hill school in London. Martin began his working life as a librarian at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, before setting up a translation service for the Iron and Steel Institute, editing and distributing articles from technical journals. While in London he became a prison visitor at Wormwood Scrubs, and in 1962, after moving to Aylesbury to become information officer at a research centre established by the iron and steel making company Richard Thomas and Baldwins Ltd, he became a visitor at Aylesbury prison. In 1964 Martin accepted a post as librarian at the Institute of Criminology, working there until 1971. While in Cambridge he started a Simon Community branch in the city, and homeless people would often turn up at our house asking for him: we children would happily invite them into our living room for a cuppa, until he or our mum arrived home from work. After his 13 years as head of the Howard League in London, Martin became policy officer at Victim Support in 1984 while working as an occasional freelance researcher for the BBC TV programme Rough Justice, highlighting miscarriages of justice. He also studied for a PhD at the London School of Economics, carrying out research into victim offender mediation. Outside his work, Martin was a founding member of the Lambeth Mediation Service in south London, which was set up in the early 1980s to foster dialogue between local communities in Lambeth and local authorities. He was also a prolific letter writer for campaigning causes, including tree preservation, the Bhopal disaster, Romanian zoo conditions, vegetarianism, anti-smoking, solar energy and traffic pollution. He was still cycling around London aged 90 on his electric bike. He is survived by Lisa, his children, Edward, me, William and Ellie, and his sister Vivian.
