Mr Walton sees search

Press, 23 September 1983, Page 4

Mr Walton sees search

PA Napier The Commissioner of Police, Mr R. J. Walton, visited Napier yesterday to oversee the hunt for the missing schoolgirl, Kirsa Jensen.

The man heading the investigation, Detective Inspector lan Holyoake, briefed Mr Walton on the inquiry yesterday morning, showing him the Awatoto gun emplacement where Kirsa Jensen was last seen on September 1. “The main reason I am here is this mystery,” said Mr Walton. “I have come to find out the facts. I am anxious to see the matter resolved and I want to be sure we are doing all that we can,” said Mr Walton.

He said any unsolved cases were disturbing, but

he felt that this investigation could still be resolved.

Earlier yesterday, Mr Holyoake said that the K! were no closer to g Kirsa Jensen than they were when she disappeared three weeks ago. He said the key to the case rested with finding the driver of a white utility who was seen talking to the girl on the day she disappeared. He said that the police had decided not to release an identikit picture of a man seen in a white utility with a girl on the day she went missing. But detectives hope to be able to find the man through their checks on white utilities. He is believed to be younger than the man two other witnesses saw talking to Kirsa Jensen by the gun emplacement.