The Confession Statements

Mr Barr

Mr Barr was an invalids beneficiary living in Yarrow st, which David Hogan boarded with. According to Mr Barr, David Hogan seemed "a bit strange" after the last fishing trip. Mr Hogan told him he had "blown someone away". Later in another conversation Mr Barr said that Hogan had beaten the victim up first and when he got back on the boat had "blown him away," wrapped him up in a anchor net and thrown him over the side. In June Mr Barr stated that Hogan had told him the dead man's name was Mark Roderique. While the crown prosecutor Mr Garland questioned whether Mr Hogan had said "I" or "We" blew him away Mr Barr said he was sure it was "I"..*

*The Southland Times. November 8, 1995

Mr Anton Sherlock

In his statement to police Mr Sherlock states that while at the home of Mr Barr, while having a cannabis joint alone with David Hogan, Hogan had told him that he had killed someone. When asked where, Mr Hogan replied at sea and later implied he had beaten him first and then shot him. He went on to say that the victim was thrown over the side of the boat, and sounded as if there was someone else involved. Sherlock states "He said he would kill me if I said anything."*

Mr Anton Sherlock was himself murdered only hours before the trial was to begin.

*The Southland Times. November 8, 1995

Kylie Reidie

"Prior to coming out in the news media that Mark Roderique was missing, David Hogan told me that somebody had been shot and killed."

Steven Keefe

"He said the he had got away with killing two poeple, and he laughed."

Freddie Angell

"(Greg Iverson) said that Hogan had paid him to shut Sherlock up, to stop him from testifying in court about the killing of Mark Roderique."

Melanie Rei

David Hogan told me that he and Rex Haig together killed Mark Roderique. He said that they killed him with a metal object, a metal pole, something heavy."

Gary Hopkins

"He said he had used a hunk of pipe and 'they'd turfed him overboard'...I said to David Hogan 'did you do it?' and he said 'yes I did'."

Karen Richerdson

"David Hogan said that Haig had held a gun at him and told him to hit the other person with the iron bar."

Jacqueline Galland

"He said he told the police what they wanted to hear so he wouldn't go to jail for a life-term sentence...the conversation gave me the impression that he was actually involved in killing this person."

Mark Downing

"David Hogan said that he and the other crewman kept smashing this other person over and killed him."

Ivan Skienars

He told me that... Rex haig should never have been in Jail. He said that Haig wasen't really involved as much as what was made out."

Witness

"David Hogan said that he had shot this person. He did talk about the gun and some other stuff...I also remember Hogan saying...'I knocked him off."

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