Red Fox Tavern cold case trial underway in High Court

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 4:46 a.m.

A trial is underway for one of the country's most well known cold cases. More than 30 years after Waikato publican and father-of-two Chris Bush was shot dead during a robbery at the Red Fox Tavern in Maramarua. Sixty-year-old Mark Hoggart and another man with interim name suppression, were arrested in August 2017 - after the police re-opened the file - but they deny charges of murder and aggravated robbery. RNZ reporter Sarah Robson is covering the case in the High Court at Auckland.