Hunger strike ends
A Paparua prisoner, Larry Geeson, aged 25, has ended his 25-day hunger strike.
The deputy district superintendent of prisons, Mr M. Leimon, said that Geeson had made his own decision to resume eating.
Geeson began the hunger strike in late July as a protest against evidence that had been given in a preliminary hearing of his case. He has been charged with five others with mur-
der and attempted murder after a gang shooting in Christchurch, in April. He has also been committed for trial on several fraud charges. He is due to appear in the High Court on September 27. Geeson was now on a full diet, Mr Leimon said yesterday. “The crisis is now over as far as we are concerned,” he said.
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