The Supreme Court of New Zealand in Wellington has overturned the 1990 murder conviction of a man for the killings of two Swedish tourists. The court ruled that the conviction was unjust. The decision does not formally acquit the now 72-year-old man, and the question of guilt remains open.
It is now up to the prosecutor to decide whether a retrial can be held. The two Swedes, in their 20s, disappeared in April 1989 while hiking on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand.