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The Dominion Post
October 8 2004

Gun killer died in fall
by Leanne Bell

The man who killed Waiouru army cadet Grant Bain fell to his death in a West Coast forestry accident six years ago.

Andrew William Read was killed at Charleston Forest, near Westport, when he fell down a limestone tomo, or hole, according to the Westport coroner's file held by the Justice Ministry in Wellington.

Read, who was employed as a forestry worker, was felling rimu trees on a ridge in the forest when he died.

He plunged about 15 metres head-first into the hole, with his head hitting rock, when the tree he was cutting did not fall where it was supposed to.

Read was 35 years old when he died in October 1998.