{"id":566253,"date":"2026-08-12T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/566253\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:00:09","slug":"red-fox-tavern-murder-pair-whose-convictions-were-quashed-seek-costs-from-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/566253\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Fox Tavern murder: Pair whose convictions were quashed seek costs from Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Publican Chris Bush was fatally shot at the Maramarua pub and two balaclava-clad offenders fled with more $30,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The case went unsolved for almost 30 years before James Wilson and Mark Hoggart were charged and subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/crime-and-justice\/439436\/red-fox-tavern-murder-case-draws-to-a-close-with-guilty-verdicts-after-30-years\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">convicted in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Last month, the Supreme Court acquitted the pair after deliberating two years, finding there was no reliable evidence to prove they were at the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Lawyers for Wilson and Hoggart had earlier failed in their bid to overturn their convictions at the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">On Wednesday morning, the case was called in an administrative hearing at the High Court in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Justice Mathew Downs said he&#8217;ll defer the next court date until the shape of application is better known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Publican Chris Bush was fatally shot at the Maramarua pub and two balaclava-clad offenders fled with more $30,000.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-566253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}