A man who confessed to killing Napier teenager Kirsa Jensen has been dismissed by police as "nuts."
The 39-year-old New Zealander, who now lives in West Geelong, Australia, was taken into custody by Victoria police yesterday after he made the claim to a Melbourne journalist.
The man claimed that he had buried Kirsa's body in a shallow grave near Banks Peninsula. He gave a specific location and described the grave.
But he was later released.
Napier CIB Detective Sergeant Brian Schaab, who worked on the case, said police in Australia and locally were not taking seriously anything the man said.
"The guy is nuts. He admitted that he made it all up."
Kirsa Jensen disappeared while exercising her horse at Awatoto, a beach just 5km from her Napier home, on September 1, 1983.
A coroner's inquest late last year found that the 14-year-old daughter of an Anglican minister was probably killed and her body hidden or destroyed.
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