Arthur Taylor and Hazel Heal in Dunedin.
It was a few days into the new year and while most of the country had fled to the beach, Hazel Heal was in her Dunedin study, crafting a lengthy submission to the Parole Board.
Shortly before Christmas career criminal and jailhouse lawyer Arthur Taylor had been plucked from her rural property near Dunedin's student-town – where he resides in a cabin – and recalled to prison amid allegations he’d supplied methamphetamine. (Taylor strongly denies the charges.) Heal was disturbed. She took over his communications on his Facebook page, handled his affairs, corresponded with Taylor's supporters, and busied herself writing. (“My letter writing is my superpower,” she says. “I've set a lot of matters to rights with one good letter.”)