By Naomi Larkin
Jurors in jeans, trailed by a High Court judge in shorts, made a rare sight strolling along a West Auckland beach yesterday.
Justice Williams and the jury were taken by bus to Whatipu Beach as part of the trial of four people charged in connection with the killings of Dean Fuller-Sandys and Leah Stephens.
The accused - Stephen Ralph Stone, aged 29, Gail Denise Maney 31, her brother Colin Neil Maney, 27, and Mark William Henrikson, 32 - their lawyers and detectives involved in the High Court trial made up the rest of the party.
The visit yesterday was at the request of defence lawyers and began at the Whatipu car park where Mr Fuller-Sandys' Avenger car was found on the evening of August 22, 1989. It ended at Gail Maney's Henderson home where the Crown alleges he was shot.
Mr Fuller-Sandys has not been seen since leaving his parents' home in Blockhouse Bay to go fishing on the day it is alleged he was murdered. For years it was presumed he had been washed off the rocks, but in 1997 the disappearance was upgraded to a homicide inquiry.
Stone, the only one of the four being held in custody, and Gail Maney are charged with murdering Mr Fuller-Sandys around August 21, 1989. Stone is also accused of the rape and murder of Leah Stephens five days later. Maney is also accused with her brother and Henrikson of disposing of Mr Fuller-Sandys' body.
All four have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Pictured: Jurors, the judge, the accused and the police follow a trail leading from where Dean Fuller-Sandys' car was last seen to the Henderson home where it is alleged he was shot.
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