Craig KapitanSenior Multimedia Journalist·NZ Herald·30 Jun, 2026 04:30 AM5 mins to readAlan Hall spent 17 years in prison and more years under lifetime parole conditions until the Supreme Court issued an exoneration in 2022.It was 8pm on October 13, 1985 – minutes after the nearby stabbing death of Arthur Easton by an intruder in his Papakura home – when a motorist noticed a stranger in “rather suspicious circumstances” that prompted him to call police.
“I observed a male Māori person cross the
