Abduction ‘skylarking’
A reported abduction in Kaiapoi on Tuesday evening has been dismissed by the police as skylarking. A couple on holiday from the West Coast reported seeing a woman being chased and then bundled into the boot of a car at the comer of Williams Street and Pines Beach Road.
They said the woman was put in the boot of a 1960 Vauxhall Velox or Cresta.
The police spent Tuesday evening door-knock-ing in the area without success.
Publicity yesterday about the . incident resulted in a man coming forward who also saw the incident. He told the police he had not considered it sinister but rather skylarking. Soon after, the police located the four persons involved in the reported abduction.
Senior-Sergeant Rob Pope said the three men and a woman were from the North Island on a business trip and were staying in the Kaiapoi area.
They confirmed the woman was thrown in the boot but only in fun.
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