Karen Aim murder

Karen Aim murder

Karen Aim was a woman from Holm in Orkney who was murdered in the town of Taupo, New Zealand on January 17 2008. The 26-year-old was on her way home after drinking with friends in Taupo, when she was murdered, allegedly by a 14-year-old Maori boy. Aim, who was on a working holiday in New Zealand, was found lying in a pool of blood on a street corner by police.

The boy who has been charged with the murder cannot be named because of his age. He faces a minimum sentence of life imprisonment, normally allowing a release after 10 years, if convicted of murder. [cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/18/new.zealand.slaying.ap/index.html |title=New Zealand police charge teenager for tourist murder |accessdate=2008-03-20]

In February 2008, a prominent British composer, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the Master of the Queen’s Music, said he had written a composition in Aim's memory after being "moved and shocked" by her death. [cite web|url=http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/ComposerwritespieceinmemoryofKarenAim/tabid/209/articleID/45384/cat/41/Default.aspx|title=TV3 report|retrieved=2008-03-20]

The tragic loss was unnecessary and preventable. [cite web|url=http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/yet-another-victim-of-new-zealand-tourism/|title=Murdered in New Zealand in the Prime of Her Life|retrieved=2008-06-120]

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