Police probe Chch link with Cameron
Police inquiries are continuing into the possibility that the nerve-gas extortionist, Bruce Douglas Cameron, was helped by some persons while he was on the run in Christchurch.
Already one person, Christopher Edward O’Donoghue, aged 22, unemployed, of Christchurch, has appeared in the District Court charged with assisting Cameron to avoid arrest. He did not plead but was granted bail of $3OOO and remanded to Friday.
No further arrests had been made in connection with the Cameron inquiry, said Chief Superintendent J. A. Jamieson yesterday.
However, detectives v- ere still inquiring into the case. Cameron, aged 32, was found hiding under a bed in a Salisbury Street flat early on March 2. He appeared in the District Court later that day and was remanded in custody to appear in the District Court at Auckland on March 9.
Cameron, the subject of , a big man-hunt in Christchurch, is believed to have flown to Christchurch from Auckland on February 23. He spent time in the Salisbury Street flat and is also known to have spent two nights in the sand dunes at Waimairi Beach, as well as staying in another
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