Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade chief Tyrone Burrowes was at his Mobil service station when he heard the terrible sound of a campervan and a milk tanker colliding.
A dead wallaby which was mysteriously dumped on a Canterbury street bench was dragged there by someone who drove to the site in a four-wheel-drive vehicle.
A first-year university student from Canterbury who was raped and strangled by an American man she was dating has been dealing with the trauma of the violent attack.