Honeymooning couple suffer theft
Tourists lose treasured photos in theft
OLIVIA CARVILLE - The Press
Steve and Sarah Haskey on their wedding day.
A British couple thought New Zealand was a safe place before they had thousands of honeymoon photos stolen from their car in Christchurch.
Steve and Sarah Haskey, from North Wales, had been honeymooning around New Zealand for a month on a "holiday of a lifetime" when three memory cards, a video camera and their passports were stolen from their rental car when they stopped briefly on the way to the airport to fly home.
"We are still trying to get over it now, we felt sick and absolutely gutted. I'm getting really upset thinking about it now," Sarah Haskey said.
She said her friends and family had been put off visiting New Zealand after hearing about the incident.
"We thought New Zealand was safe. It is so beautiful there, and I will have no hesitation in telling people this, but I hope the minority don't spoil it," she said.
The couple had stopped their car in Hagley Park to have lunch before they went to the airport and said they both went to the toilet for five minutes and when they came back a window of their car was smashed and their gear had been stolen.
"We had thousands of photos stolen, it was our holiday of a lifetime.
"It was the most amazing place I have ever been and we took so many photos because the country was so beautiful," she said.
The couple had taken photographs while they were tramping in the Tongariro national park, kayaking around Milford Sound, whale watching in Kaikoura and walking the Routeburn Track near Queenstown.
"We have the memories in our heads but it would be so nice to have them back. It was an amazing trip but all we can do is remember it now," she said.
It cost the couple $1500 to fly to Wellington and have emergency passports processed in order for them to return home.
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