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9 Aug 2016

Pike families payout was to buy off prosecution - lawyer

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An insurance payout to Pike River victims' families was designed to ensure the mine's former CEO Peter Whittall wouldn't be prosecuted, Nigel Hampton, the lawyer for two of the families says.

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