Graffiti link to Guys no sure thing

Graffiti on a building belonging to murdered Feilding man Scott Guy. Photo / Supplied

Police are still unsure whether abusive words scrawled on a shed at a Feilding property had anything to do with the murder of farmer Scott Guy.

Police this week released images that were painted on Guy's home during a night-time vandalism attack in January 2009. Guy was murdered at the Aorangi Rd home in July last year.

The phrase "F***n Bitch Slappr" was painted on an outside wall, and another phrase has been kept secret.

But Detective Inspector Sue Schwalger said in seven months they had found nothing in the behaviour of Scott or his wife Kylee, or any previous occupants, to indicate the words were aimed at them.

Police now also say a suspicious fire at the home two years before he was gunned down may not have been arson.

The Feilding homestead was destroyed with two moving trailers in the October 2008 blaze that caused an estimated $1 million in damage.

Schwalger said that though the fire still formed part of their inquiries, there was no proof that it had been deliberately lit.

"Police are not closed to the possibility it was accidental."

Those who knew more about the graffiti or the fire, and who had nothing to do with Guy's murder, had nothing to fear.