Murder-accessory charge remand
PA C Rotorua A further person has been charged in connection with the alleged murder of Alan David Turner, aged. 21, at the Taupo Municipal. Camp on August 16. < ; In the District Court at Tokoroa, Alan John Heagney, aged 17, unemployed, of Tokoroa, entered ho plea to a charge of being an accessory after the fact to murder. .Judge J. E. Millar remanded Heagney to October 16 for the hearing.’of depositions in the District Court at Taupo. ; ’ (■ ■. Heagney was granted bail of $2OOO and ordered to report to the Tokoroa .Police Station daily. Meanwhile/the search for the body , of Mr' Turner, of Tokoroa, in the .Waikato River, was scaled down yesterday. ■ . ■ An eight-day search of the river and its surrounds between the falls and the Aratiatia Dam has failed to find any trace of the body. Detective Sergeant D. N. Scott, of the Taupo police, said the search would con-
tinue for the rest of the week on a reduced scale. Last ,week in the District Court at Taupo three men were charged in connection with the incident. -
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