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A Moment In Crime: Murder in the Sounds - a most controversial case
6 May, 2021 12:00 AM
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Convicted murderer Scott Watson. Photo / Supplied
It was the early hours of New Year s Day in 1997 when it happened.
Ben Smart and Olivia Hope were among 1500 revellers at a party at Furneaux Lodge in the Marlborough Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand.
The pair, who had been friends since they were young, decided to turn in and made their way to the boat where Olivia was staying over the New Year period.
Furneaux Lodge. Photo / NZME
But when they arrived the boat was chocka - the beds were all taken and there was nowhere left for them to sleep.
Drama student Megan Younger-Watson, 17, died in February 2019
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The heartbroken mother of a bubbly drama student is demanding justice for her daughter and claims she was let down by the very system there to protect her .
Heartfelt tributes have poured in for the 17-year-old, from Ipswich Picture: SUPPLIED BY FAMILY
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A coroner ruled her death as misadventure last week and highlighted two missed opportunities on behalf of her 16-21 supported housing scheme Christchurch House, in Fonnereau Road, where vulnerable Megan was observed to be intoxicated twice but official protocols were not followed.
Investigators declined to pursue charges against individual alleged to have sexually assaulted drama student
Det Connick also revealed Younger Watson had been in a same sex relationship at the time she died on February 16, 2019.
Investigators later declined to bring charges against the individual thought to have sexually assaulted Younger-Watson.
‘Megan was one of the most wonderful, bubbliest, happiest people you’d ever meet,’ her mother,
Natashia Younger-Watson, told The Sun. ‘She put everyone before herself. That’s why there’s been such a big tribute to her. She was absolutely amazing.’
The teen, a drama student at
Suffolk New College in Ipswich, had a history of anxiety and
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