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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1443/
- Published: 2026-03-30T17:30:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-30T17:30:29.000Z
- Description: David Tamihere appealed to the Supreme Court last year, arguing the Court of Appeal should have quashed his convictions in 2025. He was released in November 2010.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, Crime

> The Supreme Court will on Tuesday release its decision on [David Tamihere](https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360796797/david-tamiheres-convictions-murdering-swedish-backpackers-now-hands-supreme-court?ref=goodoil.news)’s last attempt to clear his name, 36 years after his double murder conviction.  
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> Tamihere was found guilty in 1990 of murdering Swedish tourists Urban Höglin, 23, and Heidi Paakkonen, 21, in the Coromandel in a case that shocked the world.  
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> Höglin’s body was found in 1991, Paakkonen’s never was.  
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> Tamihere appealed to the Supreme Court last year, arguing the Court of Appeal should have quashed his convictions in 2025 when it found there had been a miscarriage of justice. Instead, the appeal court had said the convictions should remain.  
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