9 Feb 2021

Red Fox Tavern cold case trial underway in High Court

From Checkpoint, 5:46 pm on 9 February 2021

A trial is underway for one of the country's most well known cold cases.

More than 30 years after Waikato publican and father-of-two Chris Bush was shot dead during a robbery at the Red Fox Tavern in Maramarua.

Sixty-year-old Mark Hoggart and another man with interim name suppression, were arrested in August 2017 - after the police re-opened the file - but they deny charges of murder and aggravated robbery.

RNZ reporter Sarah Robson is covering the case in the High Court at Auckland.