Alcohol is a factor in 31 per cent of homicides in New Zealand.

Alcohol is a factor in 31 per cent of homicides in New Zealand.

Cody Cribb pleaded with his friend Ricky Vanstone to slow down as he sped along a rural road near Taumarunui one evening in 2011. Moments later Cribb would be dead, killed instantly after they collided with an oncoming ute. Earlier that night he and some friends had been drinking at a party. They left with Vanstone,…