In 2018, Sophia Crestani was like many other first-year university students – excited about her next chapter when she ventured from her Wellington home to the University of Otago to study mathematics and statistics. She had never been a big drinker, and her father remembers driving around North Dunedin – heartland student quarter – and feeling worried about leaving Sophia in such an environment.
In October of her second year, Sophia was killed, age 19. She was caught in a stairwell crush at an overcrowded
