PHOTO: KEVIN STENT/STUFF The two-storied house where Paul Dally held Taita teenager Karla Cardno.
Churton Cres, Taita, could be suburbia, anywhere. Except for that house.
“You just don’t walk past it,” a neighbour says.
The two-storey Lower Hutt home is where Paul Dally took 13-year-old Karla Cardno and put her through unimaginable hell in 1989 – 30 years ago.
Her naked and beaten body would be found face down six weeks later, her hands tied behind her back in a shallow grave on an isolated beach at Pencarrow. There was evidence of sexual assault.
“You know what happened there,” the neighbour says. “It is a bad, bad house.”
Dally this month appeared before the Parole Board and had his release delayed by at least 18 months, although it was noted he had made “significant progress” while inside.
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