Police clear youth
PA Auckand The police investigating the murder and rape of Alicia O’Reilly, aged six, earlier this month, are still pinning their hopes on two men seen outside her house about the time of the killing to provide them with vital clues in their inquiry. A Tongan resembling one of the two identikit pictures the police have produced of the men spent several hours at the Auckland Central station yesterday helping the police. They established he was not one of the two men they were looking for. The man heading the hunt for the attacker who suffocated and raped Alicia, Detective Inspector B. E. Matthews, said last evening the Tongan, in his late teens, had been cleared from the inquiry. . .He had walked past the O’Reilly house in , Canal Road, Avondale, several hours before the slaying He had not come forward because ha considered the identikits “a little bit skinnier” than himself.
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