80 police hunt for girl
PA Napier The police team searching for a Napier girl, Kirsa Jensen, aged 14, has been boosted to 80 after an announcement yesterday that she might have been murdered after falling from her horse at Awatoto, near Napier, on Thursday afternoon.
Detective Inspector lan Holyoake, the man in charge of the investigation, said that the police could have a murder inquiry on their hands. “We must conclude now that she has been abducted, taken away from the scene and may well have been murdered. We must expect the worst,” he said.
The police had earlier thought that the girl had wandered off dazed and was lying injured somewhere. “We can virtually eliminate her disappearance as being related to an accident,” Mr Holyoake said yesterday. Thirty police reinforcements would join the search team today, he said. The police plan to extend their search across country from the mouth of the Tuaekuri River in their bid to find fresh leads.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Malcolm Churches, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch in Wellington, will visit Napier today for a briefing on the investigation.
The police said they might consider using a medium or clairvoyant to help with the investigation. Yesterday the police interviewed workers at commercial properties in the Awatoto area arid made house-to-house inquiries.
Hundreds of people have already been interviewed. The police are anxious to interview the driver of a white utility vehicle, probably a Mazda B 1600 with wooden trim, who was seen talking to Kirsa Jensen be-’ fore she disappeared. The police yesterday repeated their appeal for that driver, who is described as in his 50s, balding
and well built, to come forward. Mr Holyoake said that if he did not respond to the police appeal, it might be necessary to check all the white Mazdas in New Zealand.
The police hoped that he would come forward because of the enormity of the task.
He said it was possible the man had been away for the week-end and did not know the police were looking for him.
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