Police are not treating the death of South Auckland man Lee Douglas Perry as suspicious after his body was found in water near Waiheke Island last month.
Detective Senior Sergeant Chris Allan said police are treating the discovery of Perry’s burnt-out car and his death as two separate incidents.
Perry’s burned-out vehicle, a white Mazda Demio with the registration HLZ228, was found 14km away from the scene.
Allan said an investigation into the circumstances around Perry’s vehicle and how it came to become crashed and burnt-out remains ongoing.
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