Boys aged 15 charged with murder
PA Auckland ’• Two boys, aged 15, were arrested on Saturday in connection with the killing early on Friday of a. Mount Eden man whose body was found on the side of a road in Gribble-Hirst Park. They will appear in the District Court at Auckland today charged with the.murder of Simon Paulus Buis, aged, 54, of Mount Eden. •The pair face another charge of unlawfully, taking 1968 Ford Corsair 2000 E which disappeared from Henderson on the night Mr Buis was found dead.
The officer in charge of the inquiry, Detective Inspector M. Charles, said that the police wanted to hear from anybody who travelled along Sandringham Road between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Friday, and who may have noticed a car similar to the Corsair parked near the entrance to Gribble-Hirst Park. Mr Buis, a building officer in the Education Department, was in a house near
the park with friends until about 1.30 a.m. on Friday. He was walking through the park on his way home when he was attacked. It is believed that the Cora sair, which had been reported stolen, was seen by a police patrol in the Sandringham area soon after the attack, and chased to eyIt was abandoned there by its two occupants, who tried to run away but were apprehended by the pursuing police. Mr Buis was bashed in the face and left dying on the side of a road winding through Gribble-Hirst Park.
A post-mortem examination showed that he died from severe injuries to the face.
Detectives are waiting for a final report from a pathologist, but at this stage are not looking for a weapon. The police have not established a firm motive for the killing but Mr Charles said that he had not discounted the possibility of robbery.
Boys aged 15 charged with murder
Press, 7 April 1980, Page 2
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