On Friday, at the High Court at Auckland, Justice Mark Woolford sentenced the pair to life imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of 10 years. In a victim impact statement, Bush’s widow Gaye Bush said she had her whole life to look forward to with her husband and that was taken away when he was killed.
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Chris Bush was a proud publican and manager of the Red Fox Tavern before he was fatally shot in 1987. The once-close family have since become estranged, the bar staff were left traumatised and despite giving up hope of a conviction, there was now a sense of relief and closure.
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