Political Suicide
Any possibility John Banks had of becoming Auckland Mayor again, has I suspect died with his idiotic comment on his talkback show that the Robert Hewitt survivial story is a hoax.
You just don’t make claims like that without some evidence or experience of your own. I am all for being sceptical or even asking questions (not that in this case I have any scepticism at all) but you don’t just assert something may be a hoax without some proof of inconsistency.