Wellington district courts reporter10:52, Jul 01 2021
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A vehicle allegedly damaged by a road roller in Silverstream Upper Hutt after a man allegedly drove it into boy racer s cars during a meet.
Two men have pleaded guilty to a series of charges over an incident in Upper Hutt where a road roller was used against cars. The group of racers were at an industrial site, and they were accused of damaging it. One of them received a broken leg when he was run over by a car trying to flee from the roller.
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Mark Hoggart and another man - who cannot be named - were on trial in the High Court at Auckland earlier this year, charged with murder and aggravated robbery.
The men were arrested in 2017, after police began reinvestigating the high-profile cold case in 2016.
It was the third-time-lucky for the investigation team: Hoggart and the other man had been considered the prime suspects in the earlier investigations, but there was never enough evidence to arrest them and lay charges.
During the trial, the Crown said the case against the two men was largely circumstantial - but the evidence pointed to them being the heavily disguised offenders who burst into the tavern late on the night of 24 October 1987.