Beauen Wallace-Loretz One of the youths charged with robbing and murdering a gay man in Auckland last December was allegedly beaten up while in Mt Eden Remand Prison. Beauen Wallace-Loretz disappeared on Thursday night from the Avondale address where he was on electronically-monitored bail. He is understood to have left the address with the assistance of an accomplice and to have cut off his monitoring anklet. The Herald On Sunday reports a friend of Wallace-Loretz's family saying that the seventeen-year old "had been beaten up when he was on remand and it had affected him." The friend says Wallace-Loretz had lost weight, was stressed and greatly feared being returned to prison. The managers of Mt Eden Prison say there were no reports of violence against him while he was inside. As of Sunday evening Wallace-Loretz remains at large but one of his lawyers and the police are urging him to make contact or give himself up.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Sunday, 8th March 2015 - 9:32pm