11 Jun 2020

Crimes NZ - Detective on Coral Ellen Burrows case

From Afternoons, 2:25 pm on 11 June 2020

On September 9 2003, six-year-old Featherston girl Coral Ellen Burrows was reported missing.Police were alerted when her mother went to pick her up from school, and found out that she hadn't attended class that day.

Her stepfather Stephen Williams had supposedly dropped her off at South Featherston school at 9am that morning.
10 days later he was arrested and charged with her murder. 

We speak to former detective sergeant John Gualter, who worked on the case known as Operation Reef.

An image shared by Police when Coral Burrows was reported missing

An image shared by Police when Coral Burrows was reported missing Photo: Supplied