THE INVESTIGATOR. DID ALAN HALL MURDER ARTHUR EASTON?

''The Investigator sees Bryan Bruce take a look at the how the Crown got a conviction in the case against Alan Hall for the murder of Arthur Easton and why Bruce thinks he is innocent.
Arthur Easton was stabbed with a bayonet during a fight in the hallway of his home in Papakura, South Auckland in October 1985. The police started their search looking for a 6' tall, strong, 18-year-old Maori male who had fought with Mr Easton and his two teenage 6' tall sons.
They arrested Alan Hall, a 5'8 asthmatic pakeha, says Bruce.
And, despite a fierce fight in which the three Easton men fought with the offender Hall turned up at work the next day with not a mark on him, Bruce adds. There is not one drop of Alan's unique blood, not one hair off his head, not one finger print to put him at the scene of the crime. And neither of the Easton boys identified Alan Hall as the man who had killed their father.
So how did the Crown get a conviction? The murder weapon and the bayonet belonged to Hall. The items he said had been stolen from his sleep out at his mother's house, but he did not come forward when the Police appealed for information. Alan's not bright, says Bruce. And when the police did finally turn up at his door, he told them several lies about what had happened to the bayonet and matters just escalated from there.'' TVNZ; tvnz.co.nz; 7/09/2009