Andrew Maaka

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Case Details

Crime: Disappearance (Missing man — last seen at gang headquarters, presumed dead)
Location: West Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Date: 1991
Victim(s): Andrew Maaka
Perpetrator(s): Unknown — Head Hunters gang suspected by family
Motive: Suspected drug-related — Maaka's family believe he was killed by the Head Hunters after using the gang's name to conduct drug deals without authorisation
Verdict: No conviction. Case remains unsolved. Fresh police appeal launched by Waitematā police in May 2026, 35 years after disappearance.
Evidence: Information gathered during the separate Deane Fuller-Sandys investigation in the 1990s, ongoing cold case review
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Andrew Maaka was last seen alive at the Head Hunters Motorcycle Club headquarters in West Auckland in 1991 and has been presumed dead for over three decades. His sister Kacey Maaka has said the family believes the Head Hunters 'did away' with her brother because he was using the gang's name to conduct drug deals. Police have believed since at least 2000 that Maaka's body may have been buried in the forests of West Auckland. The case became intertwined with the investigation into the murders of Deane Fuller-Sandys and Leah Stephens — for which Stephen Stone was convicted in 1999 but acquitted in 2025 after 25 years in prison. Gail Maney, also convicted in connection with Fuller-Sandys' murder, was released in 2020. Defence lawyers during those proceedings suggested Maaka, who had been in a relationship with Maney, may have been the real victim of the 1980s string of disappearances rather than Fuller-Sandys. In May 2026, Waitematā police launched a fresh appeal for information into the 35-year-old cold case.

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