Red Fox Tavern cold case: Staff members recall fatal robbery 33 years on
10 Feb, 2021 12:04 AM
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Police recreation of Red Fox Tavern in 1987. Video / Supplied
Staff members have recalled the fatal Red Fox Tavern hold-up, including the sound of an explosion , and hoping against hope the slain publican was okay, more than 30 years after the events transpired.
Mark Joseph Hoggart, 60, and a man with name suppression are on trial for the aggravated robbery and murder of Christopher Bush, on the night of October 24, 1987.
Both of the accused men deny they were the ones that committed the crimes.
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He must serve at least eight years and four months before he can be considered for parole. After a jury trial in November, he was found guilty of 26 charges related to the sexual abuse of his partner and children in the 1990s and 2000s. The offending happened in locations across the North Island, including Horowhenua, Manawatū and King Country. He raped his partner after she came home from a girl s night out, despite her telling him she did not want to have sex. He indecently assaulted one child after climbing through her bedroom window, and abused that child and another while watching movies on a couch.