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to write about Mark Lundy’s case. I’d been approached in December 2007 by Lundy supporter Geoff Levick at a conference in Wellington because I’d just written a story about Scott Watson, controversially convicted of murdering Ben Smart and Olivia Hope. Levick thought I’d be interested in what he’d discovered about Lundy’s case, but I wasn’t overly enthusiastic – I assumed Lundy was guilty of killing

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