Marere Ihe Rangi Meri Potaka has lived with the torture of losing a child for almost six months.
It has been a nightmare 174 days since her 17-year-old son Justyce Potaka-Kumeroa, a talented young basketballer who had just graduated high school, died in a car crash on Marine Terrace on Christmas Eve.
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