3 Nov 2010

David Tamihere set free from prison

From Checkpoint, 5:08 pm on 3 November 2010
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The double-murderer, David Tamihere, is being freed after more than two decades behind bars. The Parole Board says it's satisfied the 57-year-old can be safely released, although he still adamantly denies killing two Swedish backpackers, Heidi Paakkonen and Urban Hoglin, in Coromandel in 1989.

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