Former police officers on trial over conviction of Alan Hall

A key witness who saw someone running from the scene of Arthur Easton's murder in 1985 says he still believes the person he saw was Māori. The ethnicity of the suspect is important as Alan Hall, the man wrongly convicted of the murder, is Pākehā and went on to serve 17 years in prison. The former senior police officers have gone on trial at the High Court in Auckland, charged will wilfully attempting to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the course of justice. Reporter Matthew Theunissen was in court and spoke to Lisa Owen.

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