Murdered N.Z. couple ‘put through mincer’

Press, 16 July 1980, Page 1

Murdered N.Z. couple ‘put through mincer’

NZPA Melbourne • ;V ■z A woman had overheard a conversation between the head of a drug organisation and another woman about the deaths of two’ of the organisation’s members, a homicide squad detective told the Coroner’s Court in Melbourne yesterday. . •; . . Senior-Sergeant lan Williamson said he interviewed Kay Margaret Reynolds on November 11, 1979. ~ Miss Reynolds had told him she heard the man, Terrence Clark, say to the woman:.. “Don’t worry, they won’t find them. They have been put through a. mincer.” ' „ Mr Kevin Mason, S.M., is inquiring into the deaths of Douglas Robert Wilson, aged 26, and his wife, Isabel Martha Wilson, aged 24. Their bodies were found in a shallow grave at Rye on May 18, 1979. Clark is to stand trial in

Britain -in January , on, a . charge of murdering > “Mr Asia,” Christopher Martin Johnstone. He has? been charged, there under the alias Terrence- Alexander Sinclair. ’ ■ ■•’ Miss Reynolds, aged 29, a receptionist, had told the police she met Clark and the woman, Allison Dine, while living in Sydney in '1974,' SeniorSergeant Williamson said. She had said she first knew Clark. only as “John” and had also known him as Terrence Sinclair. She had said she knew him to be .the “Mr Big” of -a drug organisation in New-Zealand, Australia and South-East “At, this point, Allison mentioned to me about being a drug courier,” witness said Miss Reynolds had told him. . Miss Reynolds had said she made her first drug run in May, .1978, taking heroin from Singapore to Australia in two suitcases. Something had gone amiss, and she was told to

detour through ■ Manchester,, England, ’ where - the ’drugs f would be collected, witness' said Miss Reynolds •told him/ She was > paid sAust2ooo when she returned to Australia. ; Miss'Reynolds had told the police she again met Allison Dine in Sydney in . April, . 1979, and shared a flat in King’s Cross with her. •;. ..■■■■■,XJ - Senior-Sergeant Williamson said. Miss. Rey- J nolds .told him’that she and Allison. Dine had moved to Neutral Bay, Sydney, because they feared the police were on their trail. It was there that Clark had spoken of the Wilsons, whom she knew only as “Issie” and “Doug,” she had said. She said she was told by Allison Dine'.; that Clark knew of tapes made by the Wilsons for the police in Brisbane regarding the workings of the organisation. . ■ “Allison told me Terry said they would have to go,” witness said Miss Reynolds had told him.

“She also told me they were into smack.” After a few months she and Allison, Dine.had-flown to .Adelaide' iw^ere they met Clark at their hotel, she had said. ' . ‘ “I heard them , talking very' softly as if they 5 did not want me to hear,” witness said she told him. "I. heard Terry say: ‘Don’t worry, they won’t : find them. They have been put through a mincer.’ " •' That was the last time she saw Clark, Miss Reynolds had said. He had gone to England to set up a drug, business, she had said. ■ The Coroner began his inquest on the Wilsons on April 22 this year. ' •’. When ' the ' inquest opned on that day Detective Chief Inspector R. Delianis told the Court' the Wilsons were executed- because they “spilled the beans” on the .workings of a large-scale drug organisation. The hearing will . continue.