The boy who gave his life for a dog

Ashley Atofu Patai-Vaisigano was a good boy who was never afraid to do the right thing. In the end it cost him his life.

The dog's in heaven will take care of him...

The handsome, 15-year-old Hawke's Bay junior rep basketballer was spending a rare week away from his Napier family, working in Taupo with a friend, when he drowned in the Waikato River while trying to save a dog he thought was in distress. MORE>>