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A Moment In Crime: Murder in the Sounds - a most controversial case
6 May, 2021 12:00 AM
3 minutes to read
Convicted murderer Scott Watson. Photo / Supplied
It was the early hours of New Year s Day in 1997 when it happened.
Ben Smart and Olivia Hope were among 1500 revellers at a party at Furneaux Lodge in the Marlborough Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand.
The pair, who had been friends since they were young, decided to turn in and made their way to the boat where Olivia was staying over the New Year period.
Furneaux Lodge. Photo / NZME
But when they arrived the boat was chocka - the beds were all taken and there was nowhere left for them to sleep.
A Moment In Crime Podcast: Tragedy in the hills - the mysterious death of polo star Lauren Biddle
19 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
5 minutes to read
Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask
After a high profile trial in November this year, Christchurch engineer Joseph McGirr was acquitted by a jury of giving Ecstasy to a US polo player before she died in his spa bath.
But he was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice by burying her clothing after her death.
The case was bizarre, captivating and tragic - and then after all of the details emerged in the courtroom, a jury spent days deliberating before coming to their decision late on a Friday.