After a five-month investigation, the police arrested Scott Watson, a resident of Picton. At trial, he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of seventeen years.

Scott Watson (born 28 June 1971) is a New Zealander who was convicted in May 1999 after an 11-week trial of the murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope on his boat Blade on 1 January 1998. The bodies of Smart and Hope have never been found.

Murder on the Blade? - Subtitled A Journalist's View, this award-winning documentary makes the case that Scott Watson shouldn't have been imprisoned for murdering Ben Smart and Olivia Hope — because he couldn't have done it.

Murder on the Blade?: Directed by Keith Hunter. With Michele A'Court, Caitlin Adams, David Aston, Robert Chanton. Journalist Keith Hunter's documentary that looks into and re-enacts the police investigation of the Marlborough Sounds/Scott Watson murder case.

Murder on the Blade? examines the case against Scott Watson, convicted of the New Year's Eve 1997 murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope. Documentary producer Keith Hunter interviews witnesses and examines the evidence, arguing that Watson was wrongly convicted.

Notorious double murderer Scott Watson’s latest bid for freedom has been delayed after the Parole Board raised concerns over vastly differing risk assessments by three psychologists.

Hunter Productions - Discover the story behind Scott Watson, New Zealand's most blatantly dishonest prosecution in Trial by Trickery and Murder on the Blade, or read about Arthur Allan Thomas and the Crewe murders of 1970 in The Case of the Missing Bloodstain.

2016年1月28日 · Scott Watson had set out from Picton that morning on his yacht Blade, and arrived at Furneaux mid-afternoon. Watson, 26, had grown up living on board his family’s yacht, had owned boats himself and had built Blade in the backyard of his parents’ Picton home.

Scott Watson, convicted killer of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope, who were last seen in the Marlborough Sounds early on New Year's Day 1998.

Watson is found guilty and convicted of Ben and Olivia’s murders following a lengthy trial. Controversy has followed parts of the Crown’s case against Watson ever since. Water taxi driver Guy Wallace said he dropped Ben and Oliva and the mystery man to …