Auckland, New Zealand. 2006.

Seventeen-year-old Liam Ashley is placed in the back of a prison transport van for what should have been a routine ride.

He never makes it out alive.

What happened inside that moving cage would horrify a country — and expose a system that failed to protect the very person in its custody.

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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/liam-revelled-in-the-pirates-life/O3CBAYLS7NKVU3KJY746LAQKFM/  

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/slain-teenager-needed-desperate-help/OPHT6TAHVOFDSQQZ5PW6EBWZQM/  

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/itranscripti-liam-ashley-court-hearing/7FBOAQO63D33UZS5EKZTAT4WHM/  

https://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0612/DIC_Ashley_Release_Copy_11_12_06.pdf 

https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/sites/default/files/2019-03/Own%20motion%20prisoner%20transport.pdf

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ideath-in-a-prison-vani-murderer-high-risk-criminal-who-could-go-off/UQTAV6SHK52H2BAJHDLG2D2AOA/  

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/liam-ashleys-killer-gets-at-least-18-years/U6XBOE363JVEEU4L2ZLLT6QCAY/ 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ashley-killer-van-guards-ignored-me/NXHCZMBHUXIMXXSPTR3TKBLIQY/

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/blunders-led-to-liams-van-death-say-officials/SFTQIE6ICIVLS3ZO5BJ265SWOE/ 

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/liam-ashleys-death-senseless-and-preventable-%E2%80%93-oconnor 

https://youtu.be/rnxgeOb5eS4?si=NHkJ_KdYj-R4jH0v

https://youtu.be/222BcWd7ZkY?si=aB5elazcKDAbwXBX

https://youtu.be/eTx2XuSo4dY?si=Ban7TSJ2ZkickZYc

Music Credit:

1. CAN’T SLEEP

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2. LIGHTLESS DAWN

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3. SOLVING THE CRIME

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4. DARK FOG

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