Nai Yin Xue in court last month. Photo / Martin Sykes
Nai Yin Xue in court last month. Photo / Martin Sykes
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The six people who detained Nai Yin Xue in Atlanta will receive a US$10,000 reward from New Zealand police on Tuesday morning (local time).
Xue is accused of murdering his wife whose body was found in the boot of the family car outside their Mt Roskill home, lastSeptember.
He was on the run for six months after abandoning his three year-old daughter at a Melbourne train station.
Detective Senior Sergeant Simon Scott is in charge of the murder investigation and has praised the honour and integrity of those who detained Xue.
"The fact they were not even aware a reward had been offered for information leading to the arrest makes it all the more heartening that people would compromise their own safety to do the right thing and detain a fugitive," Mr Scott said.
The reward will be presented by New Zealand's US police liaison, superintendent Sandra Manderson, in a formal ceremony in Atlanta.
NZPA news agency reported last month that Xue was lured to an apartment where he was eventually put in a head lock, wrestled to the ground and tied up with a pair of pants and trouser belts.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has reported that the group has decided to give US$2000 to a friend who needs care and "the other US$8000 is headed back across the globe, to a little girl whose mother is gone".
Xue was deported from the US on March 10 and has appeared in the Auckland District Court, charged with the murder of his wife. He is in custody and is due in court again at the end of the month for a pre-depositions hearing.
