Possible sighting of man on track
PA Dunedin The police have received an unconfirmed “but reasonably promising” report that a missing Auckland general practitioner, Dr Peter Coop, aged 27, was seen on Fiordland’s Routeburn Track in late June.
Dr Coop’s family, his wife, Mrs Galina Coop, and the Dunedin police have been trying to solve the mystery of Dr Coop’s whereabouts since he vanished on June 25 from Dunedin where he had been attending an opthalmology course. The police had had two telephone calls in response to an item on Dr Coop’s disappearance on the television programme “Crimewatch” last Tuesday, Senior-Ser-geant Neville Blair said yesterday.
Late last week a man told the police he believed he had seen Dr Coop on the Routeburn Track, walking away from the Routeburn Flats hut on June 29, SeniorSergeant Biair said. The unconfirmed sighting had been brought to the attention of the Queenstown police.
A woman had also rung to talk about the case, but had contributed no fresh information.
Sergeant Blair said Dr Coop was a skilled bushwalker, abseiler and mountaineer, and had done several survival courses.
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