In dark places : the confessions of Teina Pora and an ex-cop's fight for justice / Michael Bennett.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa:Auckland : Paul Little Books, 2016.Whakaahuatanga: 240 pages, xvi pages of plates : colour illustrations, portraits (chiefly colour) ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780473326845 (paperback)
- Confessions of Teina Pora and an ex-cop's fight for justice [Portion of title]
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Nonfiction | Stratford Nonfiction | Nonfiction | 364.1523 BEN (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | A00768748 |
Teina Pora, a 17-year-old car thief, was wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Susan Burdett, who had been beaten to death with the softball bat she kept next to her bed for her own protection. Tim McKinnel, en ex-cop turned private investigator, discovered the long forgotten case 18 years later, saw an injustice had been done and set out to win Teina's freedom. Reaching from the mean streets of South Auckland to the highest court in the Commonwealth, this is the story not just of Tim's quest, but also of how an innocent man who was left rotting in a prison cell for two decades found the inner strength to rise above the dark places to which he had been condemned.
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