12 Mar 2020

Crimes NZ: the Mr Asia story

From Afternoons, 2:29 pm on 12 March 2020

What does the name Mr Asia mean to you? In the 1970s and 80s it spoke to the most infamous drug ring in the Pacific, but what actually was the Mr Asia ring and how did it fall apart?

Investigative journalist and presenter David Lomas started covering the story when he was a crime reporter at the Dominion newspaper in Wellington in 1978, and he has followed the story ever since. 

Mr Asia drugs boss Terry Clark (left) in the Bay of Islands, 1979

Mr Asia drugs boss Terry Clark (left) in the Bay of Islands, 1979 Photo: (NZ Herald/newspix.co.nz)