Jorgensen briefing
NZPA Sydney New Zealand’s police liaison officer in Australia has given Western Australian police a full briefing on convicted machine-gun murderer, Ron Jorgensen. Detective Chief Inspector Gerry Cunneen discussed Jorgensen during a routine visit to Perth this week. A former schoolmate of Jorgensen claimed to have spotted him in Perth recently, the first reported sighting since Jorgensen disappeared two years ago from Kaikoura where he had been living as a
condition of his parole.
Mr Cunneen said he had given the police in Perth a profile of Jorgensen, but he repeated comments of the Christchurch police that finding Jorgensen was not a high priority, because “the most he is wanted for is breach of parole.” Jorgensen was jailed in 1963 for his part in the Bassett Road machine-gun murders in Auckland. He has not been seen since his wrecked car was found at the foot of a cliff near Kaikoura two years ago.
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Press, 13 December 1986, Page 10
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