30 Mar 2021

Red Fox Tavern Trial: Two convicted of murder

From Morning Report, 7:24 am on 30 March 2021

After more than 33 years, two men have finally been held to account for shooting dead a popular publican at the Red Fox Tavern in Maramarua.

Chris Bush was gunned down at the pub the Saturday night of Labour weekend 1987 - and for decades the case had remained unsolved.

But yesterday in the High Court at Auckland, a jury found Mark Hoggart and another man with name suppression guilty of murder and aggravated robbery.

Reporter Sarah Robson has been covering the case.