The unnamed defendant in the Red Fox Tavern murder trial told police he knew they would turn him over and he had thrown a sawn-off shotgun he had in the sea because he "freaked out". He said he thought he arrived in Tauranga on the Friday of Labour weekend before starting the trek home the next day. "I'm not the offender for this Red Fox Tavern, no way." The Red Fox Tavern in Maramarua where publican Christopher Bush was killed in 1987. "Did you do the Red Fox that night?"

Source: New Zealand Herald February 24, 2021 00:39 UTC