Photo: Luisa GiraoPolice are conducting doorknocks throughout the Otautau community today following the alleged murder of a 9-year-old boy in the small Southland town earlier this week. About five police officers were seen roaming the streets of Otautau this morning as part of the ongoing investigation. However, he only arrived back at his Otautau home at 8.30pm and had not seen a young person in the area, he said. “I looked down the street [on Thursday] and saw all the police and thought, 'oh my god, something has gone down'.”While he was not there at the time of the incident, Otautau was a “small town where everybody knows everything”, he said. A young person was arrested and charged with murder in relation to the death.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 02, 2019 00:11 UTC