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ing things, working on the stud farm with her while thinking the threats and abuse were one-off incidents. “What an idiot I had been to never once see a pattern to the violence,” White said. The shattered father, who has been on a mission to create awareness about the warning signs of family violence and prevent other women from walking in his daughter’s shoes, or other fathers suffering the same fate — was at the Fencible
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ang. He put a shotgun to her throat and killed her from close range. When the police knocked at David White’s door to inform him that his daughter Helen had been shot by her husband Greg Meads, a feeling of shock and intense grief took over. The last 10 years saw him move home to Matamata to be close to his daughter and included talks about fix-
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Lounge this week at the invitation of Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown. White has been on the road since February, covering the length and breadth of NZ. He intends to cover 71 electorates to share his story. He also visits prisons, talking to gang members in an effort to change lives. “He shot my daughter Helen just because she said, ‘I’m going to leave you next Saturday’. “Her husband, a wealthy horse breeder, spent the next three days
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planning how to kill her. Family violence is not restricted to a low socio-economic group or to South Auckland. It doesn’t discriminate between colour, race or wealth. “When the police informed me that my daughter had been killed by her husband, my immediate thought was that I didn’t want to live without my first-born. I wanted to commit suicide,” said White, who admits he was a coward. ➤ Turn to Page 9
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