A reward is being offered in an ongoing police investigation after a man died from drinking Port anonymously left in his letterbox. In November 2021, two bottles of Port were left in the letterbox of a remote farm home belonging to 67-year-old New Zealander Dave Davan. Davan, who lived in Northland, south of Kaitāia, drank the first bottle of Port, and collapsed after opening the second bottle a week or so later. He was shortly taken to Whangārei Hospital and then transferred to the intensive care department at Auckland Hospital, where he suffered kidney failure and died on 9 December, 2021. Speaking to police before his death, Davan said he had noticed that the seal on the second bottle of Port had been broken, and that there had been “a slight difference in taste”, but had thought nothing of it at the time. He asked the police to carry out testing on the contents of the second bottle, which remained at his home. That testing revealed traces of deadly herbicide paraquat in the Port, indicating that Davan had been poisoned. NZ$50,000 reward Three years later, Davan’s family has not given up hope of catching the person responsible for his death. His son is offering a NZ$50,000 (£22, 854) reward for information over the death of his father. “I just want someone held accountable for what they did to my father,” he said. Davan’s family believes that the perpetrator of the crime is someone known to them, as the poisoner was
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