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Coroner’s findings on log killing at beach: Oliver, 11, left with unsurvivable head injuries

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by James Pocock 

Oliver Shone was enjoying his holiday playing on and around a log in the shallows of Waikanae Beach in Gisborne last year under the close supervision of his grandmother. 

Marie Shone had taken a photograph of the moment on that January evening not long before a wave shifted the log under her 11-year-old grandson’s feet. 

She rushed to pull him out from under th...


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