Swedes’ inquiry turns up pack

Press, 21 July 1989, Page 4

Swedes’ inquiry turns up pack

PA Wellington Discovery of a tramping pack believed to have belonged to two missing Swedish tourists has given the police a new line of inquiry. Two packs and a telescopic fishing rod belonging to Sven Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen are believed to have been sold to an Auckland pawnshop by a man, David Wayne Tamihere, using the name Hoglin.

Tamihere has been charged with stealing the missing Swedes’ car and some of their belongings.

A woman had taken the pack into a South Island police station, said a spokesman for Detective Inspector John Hughes, who heads the inquiry, from the Operation Stockholm base in Thames.

“Inquiries are being made to see if it is the one we are looking for,” he said.

The police had also confirmed that a Canadian woman and a Swiss woman tracked down by Interpol had travelled in the Swedish couple’s white Subaru car in April.

The women had told the police in their own countries what they did and where they went in the car.