Bailey’s Mother

NZPA report:

Kurariki’s mother says arrest “might be the best thing” for her son after he failed to appear in court.

TV3s’ Campbell Live presenter John Campbell visited Kurariki’s home yesterday, where he spoke to his mother, Lorraine West.

Kurariki had got “all dressed up” for court yesterday morning, Ms West said. When she was told her son may be arrested, she said it “may be the best thing” and that he had been “getting on my nerves”.

When she told her son to behave he would say he was nearly 21 and to stop nagging, she said.

“I’m always on at my friends, ‘Who’s got a gun with one bullet?’ That’s all I’d need, I’d shoot him. I brought him into this world and I’d shoot him.”

I know Bailey has done some awful things, and is probably heading towards a life of crime. But I still think it is shocking his mother would talk about him like that to the media. And saying you hope he is sent to jail as he has been “getting on your nerves”.