The Guy arrest

UPDATE: The person charged is Scott Guy’s brother-in-law, Ewen Kerry MacDonald. I understand MacDonald is married to one of Scott’s sisters (rather than being the brother of his widow). MacDonald was a pallbearer at the funeral and Scott Guy was his best man at MacDonald’s wedding to his sister.

There was spontaneous cheering on Twitter last night as news broke that an arrest had been made in the killing of Scott Guy. Of course charges do not mean the accused is guilty, but I think what people were celebrating is just that the Police have at least worked out who they think did it. It seemed for so long that there were no real clues or even suspects, and it may have remained unsolved.

Stuff reports:

The father of slain Manawatu farmer Scott Guy has revealed that he knows the 30-year-old man arrested for his son’s murder.

“It’s been a tough day,” Bryan Guy said last night.

“We were very surprised when we heard the name. It was someone we knew.”

Police broke the news to the family about 7pm that a Feilding man was being charged with murder, accused of gunning down Scott Guy in the driveway of his rural property on July 8 last year.

The man is due to appear in Palmerston North District Court this afternoon.

It will be interesting to learn, in time, what the alleged motive was.