Foot may be fisherman’s

Press, 23 July 1986, Page 11

Foot may be fisherman’s

PA Wellington The police believe the remains of a human foot found on Pukerua Bay beach, north of Wellington, on Sunday may belong to one of two missing Wanganui fishermen. Detective Senior-Ser-geant Lloyd Reeve, of Porirua, said a Plimmerton woman discovered the foot while walking along the beach. She walked home but decided not to call the police until the next day because it was getting too dark for a search. A police team searched the beach on Monday, found the foot, and took it to Wellington for examination. Pathologists confirmed yesterday that it was an

adult’s left foot, probably a male's.

The foot could belong to one of the two commercial fishermen, Lewis Luxford and Bruce Wilson, who disappeared in their boat Pedro II off the Wanganui coast on July 5, said the police. They discounted the possibility of its belonging to Constable Glen Hughes, who is missing, presumed drowned, after the capsize of the police launch Lady Elizabeth II in Wellington Harbour on July 2. ’ Tides were unlikely to have swept it that far round the coast. A two-day police and search and rescue inspection of the coast from Pukerua Bay to Makara yesterday with nothing else found.