woman murdered rescuing a kitty....

[kt_luvs_kitties]

VERY SAD. RIP kind lady...

What is more disturbing is that I have and would do this again... Next time I will bring along someone with me. I hope she did not die in vain....

And, may the killer rot in hell. I believe he will

[G535]

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/2023069

[Catty1]

I would think they found out, from neighbours too, if this guy even HAD a cat to begin with.

I'm sure they will arrest someone soon.

RIP, poor lady.


ETA: Man held over cat lover's death
Aug 20, 2008 6:23 PM

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/423466/2018369

Police are questioning a man over the death of a 52-year-old Christchurch woman who disappeared when she went out to rescue a cat.

The disappearance of Kerry Downey began as a missing person case but is now a murder inquiry.

Cats had a special place in Downey's life. She had devoted her time to rescue them and her work colleagues say she was doing just when she disappeared about 7pm Monday in the Riccarton Road and Ilam Road vicinity.

"The person rang our office and said that they had a stray cat. It was more of a young cat, probably seven months or under, and they were going to hit it on the head if we didn't come and pick it up. So that's why Kerry went," says Suzanne Heenan of the Cats' Protection League.

Just what happened at the block of flats is unclear but it's now a crime scene with forensic staff working the area.

"Nobody likes the idea of this kind of thing going on, and it's always heart warming to feel you know the feeling from the public when we're investigating this sort of crime," says Detective Senior Sergeant Grant Wormald of Christchurch police.

Heenan says Downey wouldn't have hurt a fly.

"And we knew something was wrong when she didn't come home that night to fed her cats."

It was a walker out early Wednesday morning who found the 52-year old's body off a remote road in the Port Hills.

"Something really nasty's happened and we call on the public to help you know putting away whoever is responsible," says Wormald.

Police are appealing for sightings of her red 2001 Suzuki Alto hatchback, found dumped in the suburb of Barrington early Wednesday morning.

"People acting under stress may behave in funny ways when they're driving cars and that's why we ask if anyone's seen a car such as that acting in some way that's not normal," says Wormald.

The car was last seen in the vicinity of 281 Riccarton Road.

"I also pick cats up and this has made me have a very big think. But I don't pick my cats up at night. Kerry went out at twilight," says Heenan.

And what's saddest, she says, is that a kind woman lost her life trying to do a kind deed.