Evidence of what police believe could be the first recorded murder at the South Pole was heard at an inquest in New Zealand yesterday.
Rodney Marks, 32, an astrophysicist who died in 2000 at the Scott-Amundsen polar research station, may have been deliberately poisoned, police said.
The post mortem showed that he died from a heavy dose of methanol but an initial inquest was adjourned in 2000. The inquest yesterday heard that Dr Marks was a binge drinker who used alcohol to control mild Tourette's syndrome, an inherited neurological disorder....