Mid-South Canterbury area commander Inspector Dave Gaskin said thedeaths were being treated as suspicious, but due to the isolatedlocation efforts were still being made to reconstruct whathappened. Gaskin would not comment on the pair's injuries or on whether anyweapons were found at the scene. 'Body still warm' Timaru man Daryl MacDonald was part of the first group ofmotorcyclists on the trail, who discovered the bodies at around11am. "We were three-quarters of the way through the track where it headsdown a steep hill," he explained, when he and a group of friendscame up behind a woman on her trail bike, who had stopped near thebody of a man. "She thought it was a rider ... We stopped and checked and saw aguy lying on his side facing away from us. He was probably in hislate 30s to early 40s. We checked him and he was still warm." MacDonald said the body of the woman was found some distance away,"in a small clearing in between trees'. He had heard from others on the ride that "it looked like she hadbeen there for a while". Another of the ride participants, Andrew Wright, of Timaru, saidone of the riders had put his hand on the man's chest and it wasstill warm, so he had tried to stop the flow of blood. Waimate Main School principal Adam Rivett said the riders told himthe woman's throat was slit. "It was pretty gross. My understanding was that it wasn't thenicest thing to come across." He said the area was a "strange place" to find bodies because itwas "as remote as you could get". "The gates to the forest from the road are locked, so unless youhave a key, you can't get in." "Forestry workers do go through that area, but that could have beenweeks or months down the track. If the riders had not come acrossthose bodies, then they would have been out there for months,"Rivett said. Email this article Print this article Text size + - more... Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Latest NZ News Video ONE News Minute 9pm update: May 28 (1:09) ONE News Minute 6pm update: May 28 (1:16) Marines mark 70 years in NZ (1:26). The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Aluminium Scaffolding , Modular Container House Manufacturer, and more. For more , please visit Aluminium Scaffolding today!
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