Mystery surrounds driver in Wainuiomata fatal crash

It started with a karakia on Wednesday and yesterday, three years to the day since he died, an inquest into the death of a young man in a car crash in the Hutt Valley ended in the same way. Leyton-Leigh Alderson was 22 when the car he was in crashed into a bridge in Wainuiomata. Initially the police charged a passenger, Beau McMenamin with drunk driving causing death, but that was thrown out after new evidence emerged. Both the Alderson and McMenamin families have been in the Wellington Coroner's Court this week as the coroner an inquest delved into exactly who was driving at the time of the crash.