Red Fox Tavern trial: Unnamed defendant freaked out, knew he would get turned over
24 Feb, 2021 04:00 AM
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Police recreation of Red Fox Tavern in 1987. Video / Supplied
The unnamed defendant in the Red Fox Tavern murder trial told police he knew they would turn him over and he had thrown a sawn-off shotgun he had in the sea because he freaked out .
The man with name suppression and Mark Joseph Hoggart are on trial for the October 24, 1987 aggravated robbery of the tavern and murder of its owner, Christopher Bush, in Waikato.
The Crown says two heavily disguised intruders, clad in balaclavas and gloves, burst in through a back door of the Maramarua tavern.