The sad story of Helena Pauleen Wakefield's death while living in her car

And what her brother, Larry Wakefield, had to do with it

This story has been quite prominent in the media here over the last 6 days, and in the last 24 hours we’ve found out who the woman was. As this Stuff story says “Police have named the 72-year-old woman who died while living in her car on an Auckland street.

Helena Pauleen Wakefield was found dead in her car on July 7 in Remuera during an Auckland City Mission welfare check.”

Auckland Council has accepted responsibility for the mistake of not following through on the reports from local residents, some of whom may have known her, and for not investigating reports of the woman further. Unfortunately this is not at all surprising as in Auckland there are a lot of people sleeping in their cars in 2022 so one more is hardly going to jumpstart the council into action even if it is in the very leafy suburb of Remuera, probably New Zealand’s most …