Green was given a 20-year sentence for his robberies, but was living out in the community in recent years. He died shortly after being discovered by fellow career criminal Arthur Taylor at Green s Papatoetoe flat, after a report that Green hadn’t been seen in weeks. Taylor discovered Green in a bad state and emergency services were called. According to a coroner’s report, Green was cachectic (physically wasted), dehydrated, malnourished, and hypothermic when discovered; his death was directly caused by oesophageal cancer, and contributed to by pneumonia, and cardiovascular disease. Green had considerable health issues including diabetes, asthma, osteoarthritis, hernia and dementia.
Career crim Michael Sneller talks to Stuff about the unsolved disappearance of his partner
In 1980, Marion Granville walked out of her Naenae home in Lower Hutt and never came back. Her disappearance has been linked to some of the biggest names in New Zealand crime, but 40 years later, it remains unsolved. Now, Michael Sneller, a 76-year-old career criminal and Granville’s partner at the time of her disappearance, is speaking publicly for the first time about the case that has occupied his thoughts for four decades. He is appealing to anyone who knows what happened to the 29-year-old mother of three to come forward.