Shaun Martin William Philip Finnerty-Gallagher

Killed by Thomas Tihema Christie. Sean's body was found by ambulance officers naked from the waist down in Christchurch's Auburn Reserve. He had drunk nine times the limit of alcohol allowed for a driver his age. The night before, he was caught while the group he was with were shoplifting vodka at Liquor King in Riccarton. As punishment Sean was viciously beaten. He had multiple facial abrasions, a broken nose, an abrasion to his scrotum, cuts to his scalp, and a brain injury that likely caused unconsciousness. He of from asphyxia from the combined effects of his mild head injury and alcohol as well as possible aspiration of his stomach contents. His blood was found on the picnic table into which his head had been smashed, on a grassed area, and on the clothing worn by those who beat him. Sean had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and had run away from Child, Youth and Family care. Source: https://debbiemccauleyauthor.wordpress.com/biographies/new-zealand-....

In July 2012, on what would have been Shaun Finnerty-Gallagher's 21st birthday, his family will bury his ashes in the Andersons Bay Cemetery in an old tobacco tin. Source: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/shauns-father-says-six-year-sent...

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