Vanished: The missing people of New Zealand
16 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Tim Wallis family have spent more than 10 years wondering what happened to him. Wallis born Timothy Lees was last seen by his family in Dunedin on August 6, 2010.
He d been in a bit of trouble with police and was doing community work.
His brother saw him there that morning but Wallis skipped out on the afternoon work and was never seen again.
In the years that followed, Wallis two sisters died both took their own lives and his father passed away.
Tim Wallis aks Lees. Photo / supplied
Each time there was a death the family tried to locate Wallis but had no luck.
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Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask
After a high profile trial in November this year, Christchurch engineer Joseph McGirr was acquitted by a jury of giving Ecstasy to a US polo player before she died in his spa bath.
But he was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice by burying her clothing after her death.
The case was bizarre, captivating and tragic - and then after all of the details emerged in the courtroom, a jury spent days deliberating before coming to their decision late on a Friday.