Missing person inquiry steps up
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Nelson police investigating the disappearance of gold prospector Hugh McAllister will send a team of detectives to the West Coast in the next two weeks.
McAllister, 70, was last seen on January 21 at a mine site in the Greenstone River area near Greymouth.
His daughter, Brenda Wilkinson, said last week she suspected her father had been murdered.
Detective Senior Sergeant Wayne McCoy, of the Nelson CIB, said yesterday that Nelson police had taken over the investigation from Greymouth officers about a month ago because staff there had four murder inquiries.
McCoy was "keeping a very open mind" on the disappearance. Nelson detectives visited the West Coast two weeks ago and four detectives would visit in the next fortnight, he said.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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