Selwyn Times: November 21, 2017
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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Wednesday <strong>November</strong> 22 <strong>2017</strong> 5<br />
News<br />
Meeting with Adams<br />
over son’s suspected suicide<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
GREENDALE resident Geoff<br />
Booth will meet with <strong>Selwyn</strong><br />
MP Amy Adams this week to<br />
discuss the death of his son and<br />
raise awareness of the mental<br />
health system.<br />
He will meet with Ms Adams<br />
to discuss his son Liam, <strong>21</strong>, who<br />
died from a suspected suicide<br />
on October 2, days after he had<br />
been treated at Hillmorton<br />
Hospital.<br />
Liam’s body was found in<br />
Beckenham Park, close to where<br />
he lived.<br />
Mr Booth said he is hoping to<br />
show Ms Adams what is left for<br />
people who survive after there<br />
is suicide in the family and what<br />
sort of affect it has on them.<br />
“She is my local MP – she<br />
represents me in Parliament and<br />
I suppose she needs to be aware,<br />
but it is probably more Jacinda<br />
Ardern and the new Government.<br />
I need to get in their ear<br />
to be able to change the outcome<br />
to suicide,” he said.<br />
He has written to Ms Ardern<br />
and Minister of Health David<br />
Clark to raise awareness<br />
about the country’s mental<br />
health system.<br />
About three weeks before<br />
Liam’s death, he had threatened<br />
to harm himself at Halswell<br />
Quarry Park. Police were called<br />
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LOSS: Geoff Booth will meet<br />
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and he was taken to Christchurch<br />
Hospital.<br />
He was discharged and<br />
continued receiving outpatient<br />
treatment at Hillmorton Hospital<br />
until the Friday before his<br />
death.<br />
Mr Booth has since told the<br />
Canterbury District Health<br />
Board that hospital staff had<br />
wrongly discharged Liam and<br />
taken his word he was not going<br />
to harm himself.<br />
Following Liam’s death, Mr<br />
Booth filed a complaint with the<br />
CDHB and is still waiting for a<br />
response.<br />
Mr Booth has since met with<br />
some of the CDHB’s key managers<br />
to ask what went wrong –<br />
but they were unable to tell him<br />
anything.<br />
He said things have been up<br />
and down for him since the<br />
death of his son.<br />
“Some days you win and some<br />
days you don’t. Some days it<br />
affects you more than others,”<br />
he said.<br />
Liam’s death has been referred<br />
to the coroner.<br />
Raeward Fresh<br />
seeks consent<br />
to open store<br />
in Prebbleton<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
PREBBLETON could be getting<br />
a Raeward Fresh.<br />
Foodstuffs South Island Ltd<br />
has lodged a resource consent to<br />
the district council to operate a<br />
Raeward Fresh store along with a<br />
cafe and associated car-parking.<br />
It would be located at 563<br />
Springs Rd – down the road from<br />
green grocer, Healthy Harvest<br />
Fruit and Veges.<br />
Foodstuffs South Island<br />
property and retail development<br />
general manager Roger Davidson<br />
said Prebbleton was chosen due<br />
to projected customer demand.<br />
He said there was a desire from<br />
consumers to have access to good<br />
quality fresh fruit and produce.<br />
Deputy Mayor Malcolm Lyall<br />
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“We have had applications put<br />
in the last 12 months that haven’t<br />
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exciting to see that happening,”<br />
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