Call to honour immunity
PA Auckland The Auckland police will ask the Solicitor-General to honour the immunities given to two men now facing private prosecution on a charge of murder in 1979. .... The police move was dis-, closed yesterday by Detective Inspector Brian Rowe, who headed the inquiry info the Mainstreet Cabaret killed of Margaret Bell, aged 17. Mr Rowe said the police would make “an early approach” to the SolicitorGeneral, asking him to honour undertakings given by his office to Gary Keith O’Connor and Bruce Graham Speck. The two men face a private prosecution by Brian Ronald McDonald, who was convicted of Miss Bell’s murder and is now serving a sentence of life imprison-, ment. Mr Rowe said that the undertakings given to the men meant that the Solic-tor-General would stay any proceedings against them if they answered all questions Sut to them during IcDonald’s trial. ‘I have no doubt, knowing the terms of the immunities Si, that the Solicitorral will, in fact, stay the murder proceedings,” Mr Rowe said.
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