Car home to man and pets living rough in Marlborough - Stuff.co.nz
He described the abuse as "mental, physical torture" and said it wasn't until he was about 40 that he fully accepted what happened to him. The Express reported yesterday that some homeless people in Marlborough had resorted to sleeping under flax bushes for shelter. Turner is one of an estimated 50 people in Marlborough who does not have a house to go home to or a bed to call their own. He was lucky he had his car, a Mitsubishi Diamante, which gave him and his two pets shelter, he said. He was married once, and had a good job working on a farm in Tapawera, near Nelson. Blenheim Salvation Army community ministries co-ordinator and social worker Bridget Lauder said many people who found themselves living rough had suffered emotional trauma at some stage in their life. He was married for about six years until he had a mental breakdown and got divorced in 2002. He has been travelling since, before returning to Nelson in 2009. Despite not having to work because of his condition, he had a vineyard job lined up in... Finding a rental home in Blenheim where he and his pets could live had proved difficult, but he would rather live in his car with them than give them up for a home, he said. Source: www.stuff.co.nz
