It was a case that shook the nation. Nia Glassie was only 3 when her life was slowly and painfully taken following torture and abuse at the hands of people who were supposed to care for her. Now, 17 years on, her killers could be released from jail. Senior journalist Kelly Makiha reports.
In just a few weeks, brothers Michael and Wiremu Curtis are to go before the New Zealand Parole Board for the first time and ask to be released from prison.
They are about to end their life sentences with minimum non-parole periods of 17 and a half years for the murder of Nia Glassie in Rotorua on August 3, 2007.
