Sue Hurring is a South Island mum and a hairdresser. She is intensely private and she has found herself in the middle of one of the biggest stories in this country in a very long time.
Her daughter, Kara, is one half of the Rotorua couple that left the country with $3.8 million that belongs to Westpac.
And not only did Kara go, she took her seven-year-old daughter, Lena with her – Ms Hurring's granddaughter.
Ms Hurring knew nothing about it, and by the time she found out it was too late to get Kara back. She says she does not know where Kara is, and she does not condone what she has done.
She will help the police with their enquires as well as she is able to.
She did not want to be interviewed, but gave one interview to Campbell Live so she could ask her daughter to come home.
John Campbell spoke to her directly after she had left the Blenheim police station this afternoon.
Campbell: So tell me what you've just done, what you've been doing.
Hurring: We've just come from the police station, trying to sort out this stupid, stupid bizarre situation.
Campbell: And what did you do at the police station, give them a statement?
Hurring: We just told them that, in our best way, we just want to give as much information as we can because we want Kara and Leonard to come home.
Campbell: It is a stupid, stupid bizarre situation really, isn't it? It's unbelievable.
Hurring: Mmhmm.
Campbell: It's actually nuts. Do you know where Kara is?
Hurring: In Asia, somewhere.
Campbell: And have you spoken to her?
Hurring: No, but she did ring me and I hung up on her, because I know what she had done.
Campbell: Did you say anything before you hung up?
Hurring: No, I just hung the phone up.
Campbell: So what would you like to say to her now?
Hurring: Just come home.
Campbell: What's she like?
Hurring: She's beautiful, and she's honest. This was the craziest thing – she's never done any... she's never pinched a thing. As a little girl, yes, but she's so honest. So honest.
Campbell: And she'd been working really hard in this gas station, right? And that was struggling, and then suddenly $10 million, you know, just turns up out of the blue in her bank account and... she's gone, and I guess your message to her now is, 'You can undo this, come back.'
Hurring: (nods)
Campbell: Tell me about your granddaughter, her daughter, Lena. She a lovely girl?
Hurring: Yeah, she's a real cutie. She's beautiful. And she needs to come home too.
Campbell: How bizarre is it for you to find yourself in the middle of all of this?
Hurring: It's a bit overwhelming. It goes from up there to down there.
Campbell: There must be times when you find it sort of strangely funny.
Hurring: Yeah, well you've got to have a laugh. It is bizarre. Crazy.
Campbell: I guess today talking to the police about this as Kara's mum, talking about millions of dollars missing, that must have been tough.
Hurring: Yeah. I just wasn't sure what to do about it. I think the more information that I can help with the police to get them home, is more important.
Campbell: So what about Kara's partner, Leo? What's he like?
Hurring: Leo's an okay guy.
Campbell: A hard worker too?
Hurring: Yeah, very hard worker.
Campbell: Would you say anything to him, or is it more Kara and Lena you're interested in?
Hurring: Well if you really want to know, I'd like to wring his blingin' neck, for getting the whole... yeah, I don't know what to say.
Campbell: You've just had enough of this now, haven't you?
Hurring: Yes, I have.
Campbell: You're someone's mum.
Hurring: Yep.
Campbell: And so, you don't really want to talk to the media at all, do you?
Hurring: No, they're everywhere, and I just know by doing this... I just want some privacy, 'cause no one's died. Whereas some people are so dramatic and thing, and that's where you've gotta keep your spirits up.
Campbell: And get your girl home.
Hurring: And get my girls home. Never mind Leo, he can stay there.
Campbell: Do you want to say anything to Kara?
Hurring: Just come home now, please, and it could be okay. It's gonna be okay.