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Authorities in the United States are hunting for fugitive tai chi instructor Nai Xin Xue after the man, believed to have killed his wife in Auckland, flew to Los Angeles. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that New Zealand police have come in for criticism over their handling of the case.
Mr Xue is thought to have killed his wife at their Keystone Avenue home before collecting his passport and sword from the police, taking his daughter to Melbournem, leaving her there, and heading to LA.
Police took several days to find Anan Liu’s body in the boot of a car parked outside the house. The car’s newsworthiness was embellished by a decal on the bonnet saying “News”. The car was taken from Keystone Avenue to police headquarters at the Clouseau Building.
Mr Xue’s hopes of going unnoticed in California’s large Chinese community will have received a setback after LA’s Chinese Daily News ran his photo on its front page yesterday, according to the Herald.
Luckily for Mr Xue, he and members of California’s Chinese community are indistinguishable from one another.
But as Mr Xue’s run from the law reaches its conclusion, the problems for his abandoned daughter, dubbed “Pumpkin” by police in Melbourne, have only just begun. For a start, people are only beginning to realise that Pumpkin is not her adorably off-beat name. Her actual name, Qian Xun Xue, is neither cute nor easy to pronounce.
Said one commentator, “I ask you, where are the parents?”
