Jensen case informant in car crash
PA Napier The man who led the police to a spot supposedly the grave of the missing schoolgirl, Kirsa Jensen, is ( seriously ill in a North' Island hospital after a car accident on Thursday.
The police fruitlessly dug over a patch of ground near Napier this week after the man — questioned in the murder inquiry two years ago — alleged the missing girl was buried there. The man was the only person injured when the car he was driving crashed.
The man has been a focus of police interest since Kirsa Jensen, aged 14, disappeared while horse riding on the Napier foreshore at Awatoto on September 1, 1983. It is believed several of
the leads that the police have followed in the case have come from this source, the “Daily Telegraph” Napier newspaper reported yesterday. Detective Inspector Barry Hunter, k>f the Napier C. 1.8., would neither confirm nor deny the involvement of the man in the accident.
However, the police in the area of the accident confirmed that the man was the only person injured, but would not enlarge. On Tuesday, the man provided information which led the police to begin excavating a site the size of a large room in scrubland near Pakowhai, south of Napier. The dig ended on Thursday, nothing more than a piece of wire having been turned up.
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