26 Mar 2025

Police issue new appeal in West Coast cold case investigation

From Checkpoint, 5:26 pm on 26 March 2025

Quarter of a century on from a murder on a remote west coast beach police are appealing to people in Kakapotahi to hand in their firearms for forensic testing. David John Robinson was killed execution style with a single gunshot to the head and his body was found on the beach near Ross in 1998. Detective inspector Geoff Baber spoke to Lisa Owen.