Photo: Mark Anthony
Two prison guards have spoken for the first time about a prisoner's confession that Ross Appelgren was not responsible for the 1985 murder of Darcy Te Hira in the kitchen at Mt Eden Prison.
The RNZ podcast Nark hosted by Mike Wesley-Smith has been investigating the Appelgren case. In today's episode, former Paremoremo prison guards Mark Anthony and Dominic Malcolm reveal that in November 1990, the prisoner told them he knew Appelgren wasn't involved in the murder, because he had ordered the attack himself.
"He said he organised it," Anthony says.
RNZ has decided not to name the prisoner, because doing so could put him and the Appelgren appeal at risk. He is instead referred to as "Danny" in the podcast.
Appelgren was twice convicted of murdering Te Hira but died in January 2013 still proclaiming his innocence.
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