Larnoch Road Murders
The Larnoch Road murders is a controversial murder case involving the 1989 deaths of Deane Wade Fuller-Sandys and Leah Romany Stephens in Auckland, New Zealand. It led to a miscarriage of justice for four defendants, two of whom – Gail Maney and Stephen Stone – were convicted of murder. The convictions of all four were overturned in 2024, although Stone may face a retrial. On 21 August 1989, Fuller-Sandys, a 21-year-old Auckland tyre-fitter, left home to go fishing. He never returned. His body was never found and authorities initially believed he probably drowned after being swept out to sea at West Auckland, New Zealand, West Auckland's Whatipu, Whatipu Beach, where his car was discovered shortly afterwards. An old friend of Fuller-Sandys later told police that he may have committed suicide, as he had just broken up with his girlfriend. Five days later, on 26 August 1989, Leah Stephens, a 20-year old Auckland sex worker, also disappeared. Her skeletal remains were discov ...
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Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asian New Zealanders, Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest Foreign born, foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is ...
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