The trial is over and the right outcome was handed down. I was dismayed by how much coverage was given to Weatherston, and how much dirt was raked up about Elliot. Each of us has a similarly messy life and we are entitled to our secrets and indiscretions.
The cynic in me would observe that Elliot’s tragic murder was just one of several dozen New Zealand homicides that occurred in 2007, and wonder how much of the media coverage stems from ‘missing white woman syndrome‘.
But my cynical side was silenced by the final paragraph of Elliot’s eloquent and quirky paper on equality, where she quotes Hayek.
“Are we not all constantly disquieted by watching how unjustly life treats different people and by seeing the deserving suffer and the undeserving prosper? [W]e do cry out against the injustice… [a]nd we will protest against such a fate.”
