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Article: Undercover officer ran when alerted to danger by colleagues, court told
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- Article from:
- New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Article date:
- March 18, 2009
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Undercover officer Sergeant Don Wilkinson said he was ``running, running'' after a police lookout told him to get away from the place where he and a colleague had been planting a tracking device, a court has heard.
Mr Wilkinson was killed and his colleague shot three times during an attempt to fit the device on a car in South Auckland on September 11 last year.
Iain Lindsay Clegg, 35 and John Ward Skinner, 37, are jointly accused of Mr Wilkinson's murder and the attempted murder of another undercover officer whose identity is suppressed.
Detective Steven Hare was part of the surveillance group acting as backup for Mr Wilkinson and the second ...