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Speaker 1: Heller Do for see.

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Speaker 2: Allen Police are offering one hundred thousand dollars reward to

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Speaker 2: anyone with information that can help solve the nineteen eighty

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Speaker 2: five murder of Arthur Easton and Papacua and Auckland. The

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Speaker 2: Eastern murder investigation is open again because the man who

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Speaker 2: was jailed for nineteen years for his murder, Alan Hall,

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Speaker 2: has proven that he was actually wrongfully convicted. Police Detective

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Speaker 2: Inspector Warwick Atkin is in charge.

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Speaker 1: A Warwick after name Heather Wawick.

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Speaker 2: This was forty years ago. I mean this is a

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Speaker 2: long shot, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, we're hoping that the reward announcement today is

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Speaker 1: a significant amount of money and we have that that

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Speaker 1: will be the incentive for people who do have information

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Speaker 1: in the community to come forward and help us solve

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Speaker 1: this matter so we can provide the Eastern family some answers.

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Speaker 2: So, are you basically looking for an arc? Is that

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Speaker 2: what it is?

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Speaker 1: We're looking for anyone with credible information to come forward

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Speaker 1: and if that information leads to the arrest and successful

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Speaker 1: conviction of the person responsible for Arthur, then they may

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Speaker 1: be eligible for the reward.

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Speaker 2: Is are you doing this because you seriously think that

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Speaker 2: this actually can result in a prosecution in somebody coming forward,

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Speaker 2: or is it more likely just something you've got to do.

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Speaker 2: Now you've accepted that the wrong guy went behind bars,

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Speaker 2: got to try and find the right guy. So you

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Speaker 2: do this, go through the motion, nothing happens, close the case.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, a reward announcement can happen at any stage

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Speaker 1: during an investigation. As investigators, we have a responsibility to

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Speaker 1: look at all options when solving crime, and today's announcement,

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Speaker 1: I hope we'll provide the financial incentive to those people

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Speaker 1: who have not shared any information to date to come

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Speaker 1: forward and inspect us.

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Speaker 2: Do you have I mean you say that you're speaking

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Speaker 2: to people who you spoke to back in the eighties.

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Speaker 2: Have you got a long list of people who you

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Speaker 2: had on the suspect list or their associates list, or

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Speaker 2: you know, is it a big group of people you're

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Speaker 2: going back to. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Look, we're doing a full review of the file and

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Speaker 1: we're speaking to a number of people, not only persons

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Speaker 1: of it, but also witnesses.

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Speaker 2: Right, and how many Bayonets. By the way, The interesting

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Speaker 2: thing about it is that whoever went and went in

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Speaker 2: with a bayonet. How many bayonets you reckon? They were

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Speaker 2: in the country in the eighties.

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Speaker 1: The bayonet in question here we still have in our position,

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Speaker 1: and that is a Swedish ninety six bayonet which was

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Speaker 1: used by the Swedish Army. It's an eighteen ninety six model.

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Speaker 1: Several hundred of those were imported into New Zealand as

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Speaker 1: suplus stock and generally sold in hunting and outdoor stores.

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Speaker 1: And I'm hoping with the images that we're provided to

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Speaker 1: the media today of the woolen hat and the bayonet

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Speaker 1: will prompt people's memory and they can come forward and

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Speaker 1: tell us what they know.

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Speaker 2: Wawick, thanks very much. Warwick ad can New Zealand Police

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Speaker 2: Detective Inspector.

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