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Prime Minister offers condolences after fatal stabbing at Sandringham superette

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  • A worker at the Rose Cottage Superette in Sandringham, central Auckland, was fatally stabbed on Wednesday night.
  • Police have opened a murder investigation.
  • Prime Minister Jacinda Adern, whose constituency the dairy falls within, issued a statement on Facebook, saying: “No one should fear their loved one going to work.”

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has reacted to the “horrific” fatal stabbing at a central Auckland superette on Wednesday night.

In a statement posted on Facebook, Ardern said she would continue to seek updates from the police and would share any new information.

Detective Inspector Scott Beard will speak to media at 11.30am at the Auckland Central Police Station.

“Late last night I heard news of the horrific robbery and homicide in Sandringham.”

“For now, what I do know is that no one should fear their loved one going to work. No one should have to confront such senseless violence or crime.”

“To the family who today mourns their lost loved one – I am so sorry this has happened.”

Ardern said it was the government’s job to make sure those who committed the crimes were brought to justice, and try to prevent them occurring.

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The person who died following a stabbing at a central Auckland superette was an employee of the store who was minding the shop while the owners are overseas.

Sunny Kaushal, president of the Dairy and Business Owners Group, spoke outside the Auckland superette Thursday morning.

He said the dairy worker had recently been married.

“This happened to a young man, who’s in his prime life.”

Since arriving in New Zealand, he had been working day to night, he said.

Dairy and Business Owners Group chair Sunny Kaushal wants to see the government take a harder line on crime.

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Dairy and Business Owners Group chair Sunny Kaushal wants to see the government take a harder line on crime.

Kaushal described the death as “devastating”.

He said the government was more interested in protecting the rights of offenders than the rights of victims and even though dairy owners were often well protected in their stores.

Kaushal said Rose Cottage Superette had done everything that police had told them for protection, with an open plan, bright lighting and CCTV.

“It was our worst fear, the worst has happened.

“All these owners have been living in fear for some time,” he said.

A cordon remains at Rose Cottage Superette in Auckland's Sandringham on Thursday morning after police launched a homicide investigation following a robbery at the store.

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A cordon remains at Rose Cottage Superette in Auckland’s Sandringham on Thursday morning after police launched a homicide investigation following a robbery at the store.

Kaushal is planning to set up a Givealittle for the family and is also set to hold a vigil at the office of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whose electorate the dairy falls within. Ardern’s home is also in Sandringham.

Police have launched a homicide investigation and manhunt after an aggravated robbery at the Rose Cottage Superette in Sandringham led to the man’s death in hospital late on Wednesday night.

A person entered the store, which is at the intersection of Haverstock Rd and Fowlds Ave, at 8.05pm. They were armed with a knife and took the cash register, police said.

The store’s employee, a young man understood to be in his 20s or 30s, was running the dairy while the owners were on holiday in India.

Tearful locals gathered outside Rose Cottage Superette in the rain on Thursday morning.

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Tearful locals gathered outside Rose Cottage Superette in the rain on Thursday morning.

Bouquets of flowers from mourners are being left outside the shop on Thursday morning as forensic police conduct a scene examination under a grey sky and heavy rain.

Just before 9am, Mere-Hinekete Hohaia, her partner, Danny Sialafau, and their son, Mahara Sialafau, came to sing Whakaaria Mai (How Great Thou Art) in te reo Māori as a tribute to the man who died last night.

“We have lived in Sandringham my son’s whole life, and [the dairy owner] and his family have been a huge rock.

“It’s heart-breaking that this happened to our community,” Hohaia said.

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For Sandringham resident Mark Ward, Rose Cottage is his local dairy.

Ward was standing at the cordon on Thursday morning.

On Tuesday night, he noticed someone new behind the counter.

“I asked whether the family had gone back to India – everyone knows and loves them around here.

Flowers have been laid by mourners outside the dairy.

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Flowers have been laid by mourners outside the dairy.

“And the young man said he was just minding the dairy while they were on holiday,” Ward said.

They pair introduced themselves and shook hands, he said.

“But last night I was coming home from a pub quiz and I saw the tape and the ambulances and my heart just sank.”

Ward was down at the dairy again on Thursday morning to see if he could find the victim’s family to create a Givealittle page.

“Every time you go in there, the family are absolutely awesome.

“I was so happy they’d gone and had a break because they’re always working so hard.”

“The whole community is just devastated this morning,” a well-wisher said.

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“The whole community is just devastated this morning,” a well-wisher said.

Claudio Alarcon lives nearby the dairy and had come on Thursday morning to drop flowers by the dairy as a “show of respect”.

Alarcon said he knew the family who ran the dairy well, so when he saw someone new behind the counter earlier this week he thought it might have been sold.

“But the young man said he was just minding the shop while the owners had a well deserved break.

“He was a good man doing a good thing for hardworking people and now he’s lost his life,” he said.

When Alarcon went to a dairy in Mt Eden and explained that he was getting flowers to lay outside Rose Cottage, he was given an extra bunch to lay on their behalf, free of charge.

“The whole community is just devastated this morning.”

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