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AsiaPac · 32 mins ago
Pair's convictions over Red Fox Tavern killing quashed by Supreme Court
The two men convicted in the Red Fox Tavern cold case murder have had their convictions quashed.Chris Bush was gunned down at the Maramarua pub on the Saturday of Labour weekend, October 24, 1987, and two balaclava-clad offenders had fled with more than $30,000.The Supreme Court delivered its ruling in the case on Tuesday morning after deliberating two years, finding there was no reliable evidence to prove they were at the scene of the crime.One of the men acquitted was James Henry Wilson, the Filthy Few gang president who had a string of previous convictions including for murdering an ex-girlfriend in Welcome Bay in 1999. He had also been convicted of other aggravated robberies.Wilson was released from prison two weeks before the Red Fox Tavern shooting, and his alleged accomplice Mark Ho
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