Post #871821

Supreme Court quashes David Tamihere’s decades-old convictions for murdering Swedish tourists David Tamihere’s convictions for murdering the two Swedish tourists have been quashed, 37 years after the couple disappeared in the Coromandel bush. The upset decision from the Supreme Court today finds that Tamihere’s High Court trial in 1990 was unfair, and based partly on evidence that was “concocted to secure convictions”. It also says that the Crown’s later theories of what happened to Sven Urban Höglin and Heidi Birgitta Paakkonen when they went missing almost four decades ago have never been tested in front of a jury. While the Supreme Court has allowed Tamihere’s appeal, overturning his two murder convictions, it has also ordered a retrial. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/supreme-court-quashes-david-tamiheres-decades-old-convictions-for-murdering-swedish-tourists/U5SMHX67FJDYPC3HOZLLRXEJAA/