For the so-called branding and diversity assignment, Brookes’ message said she wanted pictures of shoes. It’s believed the message was one of perhaps dozens sent over the past few years by Palmerston North man Malachai Scott Roger Wylie. The 23-year-old is charged with two counts of behaving in an offensive manner in the city s Number One Shoes shop, where he was an employee, and one of theft, for taking a customer’s shoe insole. Wylie’s online footprint spread further and messages from fake online profiles would solicit pictures of shoes from women, using the pretence of an imminent study deadline.
Number One Shoes says it is deeply concerned about Wylie’s alleged offending. As a student teacher in 2020, Wylie had a placement at Freyberg High School in term 2. Principal Peter Brooks said the Education Ministry’s trauma team and police were at the school on Tuesday. It was possible students at the school had been contacted by Wylie, or one of his aliases, on social media asking for pictures of shoes. Brooks said the students felt violated that Wylie had been in their class, potentially looking at their shoes and taking pictures. The school was also wondering how Wylie made it on to the teachers’ college course at Massey University.
Number One Shoes says it is deeply concerned about Wylie’s alleged offending. As a student teacher in 2020, Wylie had a placement at Freyberg High School in term 2. Principal Peter Brooks said the Education Ministry’s trauma team and police were at the school on Tuesday. It was possible students at the school had been contacted by Wylie, or one of his aliases, on social media asking for pictures of shoes. Brooks said the students felt violated that Wylie had been in their class, potentially looking at their shoes and taking pictures. The school was also wondering how Wylie made it on to the teachers’ college course at Massey University.
Paul Mitchell18:41, May 09 2021
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Police were called to a reported assault on Tilbury Ave at 10.30pm on Saturday
A woman has been charged after a serious assault in the Palmerston North suburb of Hokowhitu. Emergency services were called to a family harm incident after a reported assault at a Tilbury Ave address, off Waterloo Crescent, at 10.30pm on Saturday. A St John spokeswoman said one person was seriously injured in the assault and taken to Palmerston North Hospital. The 31-year-old woman was charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and will appear in Palmerston North District Court on Monday.
She invited him back to her room for a coffee, where he kissed her on the lips. Despite saying she did not want that or to have sex with him, he kissed her again, said he would get a condom and put her on her bed. Later that day they were again in the lounge area when he told her to go back to her room with him. He then physically escorted her to her room – he stopped her using a phone to call police – but she stopped him getting them inside. He told police nothing sexual took place, claiming he was helping the woman because she felt dizzy.