✝️ Anna Louise Wilson, age 24 – December 15 2005, Christchurch, New Zealand 🇳🇿💔
Anna was mother of a four year old girl.
Anna was picked up for sex for money by Peter Steven Waihape. He drove her to a carpark, where an argument broke out when he refused to use a condom. Waihape then partially strangled the young woman, removed her clothing, bound her hands and raped her. He then pushed her out of the car and ran her over. When Anna became trapped under the car, begging and pleading for her life, he ran her over again. Witnesses to the murder reported hearing Waihape laughing as he repeatedly ran her down. This was not the first time he’d assaulted a woman.
Justice Lester Chisholm shared damning witness testimony at Waihape’s sentencing hearing: “You were then seen to get out of your car and kick her at least twice. She managed to free herself and sat up. She pleaded for her life. Then you drove at her a number of times, smashing through a concrete wall.” Waihape then dragged the young woman back into his car, drove her to the Avon river, and threw her half-naked body into the water.
Just three days before the murder, Waihape abducted and sexually violated a teenager. She was walking home when he grabbed her off the street and drove off with her. He bound her hands in the same way as Anna. He drove the teenager around the city for several hours, violated her and dropped her off on a darkened street.
Herald reporter Jarrod Booker writes that readers of the Herald alerted him to comparisons between the circumstances of the murder and video games Carmageddon (1997) and the Grand Theft Auto series.
Booker also reported that a recent episode of Law & Order: SVU dealt with a case in which a prostitute was run over and a linkage supposedly drawn to the ulta-violent game Postal.
Waihape was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 18 years for the rape and murder of Anna. He also imposed an indefinite sentence of preventive detention.
Waihape was also sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for the abduction and sexual violation of a teenager just three days before the killing.
“It is dangerous to speculate you will not offend again in the future,” said Justice Chisholm. It was revealed at sentencing that Waihape had prior convictions spanning five pages.
