Parents visit daughter death site

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The parents of a British teenager murdered in New Zealand have visited the spot where the body of their daughter was discovered.

Liberty Templeman, 15, was found dead lying face down in a stream in the small town of Kerikeri in the far north of the country at the weekend.

Andrew and Rebecca Templeman emigrated from Essex with their daughter and son William, 12, in 2005.

They visited the scene on North Island on Wednesday with police and a friend.

Liberty moved south to Auckland with her family two weeks ago and had returned to Kerikeri to visit friends when she went missing.

Fully clothed

She was dropped off outside a school before going to meet her boyfriend at the supermarket where he worked, police reports said.

She was last seen at 1900 local time on Saturday when she told friends she would be walking through school grounds to meet her boyfriend.

The alarm was raised when she did not arrive and her fully clothed body was found at 1700 local time the next day.

Detectives have refused to say how she had died or whether she had been sexually assaulted.

In a statement, her family said: "Liberty was staying with family friends in Kerikeri, enabling her to be with a number of her really close friends prior to returning home on Sunday.

"She was looking forward to her first day at Rangitoto College where she had already auditioned for a place in the end of year performance."