Police appear to have manipulated evidence regarding Scott Guy murder:

Ewen Macdonald was acquitted of murdering Scott Guy in July 2012.  In September 2012  Macdonald was sentenced to five years in prison after he was found guilty of a number of other serious crimes, which he strenuously denied until Police elicited a confession from his partner in crime - and in who knows what else - one Callum Boe, a vulnerable orphan with a brain injury who was considerably younger than Macdonald.

Boe was convicted of arson, theft and intentional damage, he was sentenced to two years in prison, it is unclear how much time he actually spent in prison, the real question is why was he not called to give evidence by the Crown prosecutor, Ben Van der Kolk,a mate of Macdonald's brother, a local Police detective.

Macdonald was sentenced to:

• nine months for poaching the Hocken family's prize stags, 
• nine months for emptying the milk from Nigel Sexton's vat, 
• twelve months for bludgeoning nineteen calves to death with a hammer, 
• two years for burning down Mr Sexton's duck shooting mai mai (camouflaged hut used by duck hunters)
• three years for burning down Scott and Kylee Guy's farmhouse
• two years for vandalising Scott and Kylee Guy's new home.

The two sentences on the arson charges were cumulative and the rest were concurrent, which means the sentence amounted to a total of five years.  (Text that is highlighted on this site contains links to relevant information, click on the text and it'll take you t the link)  Macdonald's lack of remorse and repeated denials were the subject of comment from the Judge.  A few weeks after the sentencing Macdonald's lawyer, Greg King, appears to have committed suicide.  Macdonald first application for parole was about a year after he was sentenced.

In November 2013 Ewen Macdonald was denied parole for a second time, the Parole Board said he had a "significant personality disturbance".  Strangely, nobody ever suggested he be examined by a psychiatrist, he bears all the marks of a psychopath, and a sociopath.  After the murder Macdonald sought - and gained - a position on a local school Board of Trustees.

Recently investigator Mike Crawford sent cell phone data obtained from the Police file on the murder to  UK based intelligence analyst.  The investigators claim a series of mystery phone calls were made to slain farmer Scott Guy on the night prior to his death, and on the day of his killing, which may hold the key to the four-year-old murder.

Shortly after Macdonald's trial the Sensible Sentencing Trust approached four private investigators in a bid to bring Scott's killer to justice.

The team has uncovered calls from a mystery phone number to Scott Guy on the eve of his slaying. They believe he received another call from the unidentified number on the day of his death.

Investigator Mike Crawford said the evidence provided by police was "incomplete ... text messages were not there, there was an absence of cell-site data and three numbers did not have subscriber details attributed".

"We asked for raw telecommunications data from the cellphone sites in the area. The police came back and told me they never got that data, they overlooked it. I mean that is crucial evidence especially in a small rural area. You would then be able to see the phone numbers, who was texting or leaving messages - they never did that."

Crawford said after their probing, he and his team believe the main offender in the Scott Guy murder may have had an accomplice.  Callum Boe and Ewen Macdonald used to boast about their night time "missions", and there was speculation that Scott Guy became aware that there was an inappropriately close relationship between Boe and Macdonald, and fearing exposure, and filled with hatred, a sense of entitlement, and a desire for revenge for perceived slights, Macdonald murdered his brother in law.  Boe would be the obvious suspect as an accomplice.

After the jury found Macdonald not guilty of murder, police stated that they had no other suspect.

Crawford and his team believe there are still new lines of inquiry to be explored, but they are hamstrung because of a lack of funding.  It is outrageous that we are paying taxes to fund an incompetent and corrupt Police force, while so many killers walk free, thanks to a dysfunctional and corrupt 'justice system', while victims are forced to pay private investigators after Police appear to have destroyed evidence or deliberately failed or refused to obtain the evidence of who it was who rang and texted Scott Guy in the hours before his murder!

It's outrageous and unacceptable that we have such widespread spying powers being enacted by the government, who along with the NZ Police, invested millions of dollars into the illegal raids on Tuhoe and Dim Dotcon etc, while Police can't even tell us who rang Scott Guy in the hours prior to his murder - it's also extremely hard to believe that the refusal or failure to access the information is anything other than deliberate!

NZ Police have form for this kind of thing - they charged the victim of threatening messages instead of the perpetrator and refused to even request evidence from the telecommunications company involved - let alone obtain the evidence - they refused to even REQUEST it!

Police reckon Callum Boe had an alibi for the time Scott Guy was murdered - we've only got their word for that though, and Boe was never called to give evidence regarding any of the charges against Macdonald, who is, of course, the brother of a local detective who is great mates with the corrupt Crown Prosecutor Ben Van Der Kolk.