
Police can name the person located deceased in the water near Kāpiti Island on 25 January.
He was 69-year-old Philip Lucas of Palmerston North, who went missing from Palmerston North on Christmas Eve.
His death has been referred to the Coroner.
Image credit: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0
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