Gun traced to burglary

Press, 10 October 1989, Page 1

Gun traced to burglary

By

BARRY CLARKE

The shotgun Glen McAllister used to kill himself and the City Council worker, Mr Wayne Motz, was stolen from a Sydenham house four years ago. Inquiries into the background of the Mossberg 12 gauge, eightshot, pump action shotgun have revealed it was taken in a house burglary in July, 1985. Detective Senior-Sergeant Brian Pearce said further inquiries were being made to find out how McAllister came to be in possession of the firearm. McAllister shot dead Mr Motz .in Cathedral Square on Wednesday, 10 days after being released

from Paparua Prison. Arrangements were being made by his probation officer to see a pyschologist and enrol on an anger management course.

The fact that McAllister has not taken part in either parole conditions has angered, Mr Motz’s father, a former New Zealand cricketer, Dick Motz. He returned to Runanga yesterday and has asked the M.P. for the West Coast, Mr Kerry Burke, to take the issue to the Minister of Justice, Mr Jeffries. Mr Motz said he was grateful for the support the police and City Council had given since the shooting.

• The shooting of Mr Motz was raised by the Prime Minister and former Minister of Justice, Mr Palmer, yesterday. He is also the M.P. for Christchurch Central which encompasses the scene of the shooting. “My understanding is that the parole procedures were followed in that matter,” Mr Palmer said. There was always a review in such cases about what had happened, why it happened and how it happened. When that report was received, consideration would be given to it. “But I don’t know of anything in ’the evidence so far which would suggest any irregularity,” Mr Palmer said.