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Barry Soper: What sort of compensation could David Tamihere get?

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 31 Mar 2026, 5:27pm
David Tamihere. (Photo / NZ Herald)
David Tamihere. (Photo / NZ Herald)

Barry Soper: What sort of compensation could David Tamihere get?

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 31 Mar 2026, 5:27pm

The Supreme Court's quashed David Tamihere's double murder convictions, 37 years after two Swedish tourists disappeared. 

Open Justice reports Tamihere was found guilty in 1990 of killing Urban Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen.

He was released on parole in 2010, and granted the Royal Prerogative of Mercy in 2020, after a trial witness was found guilty of lying. 

Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper unpacked the implications of this Supreme Court verdict. 

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