The man who slashed to death a gay New Zealand couple in Fiji in 2001 has been discreetly freed from a psychiatric hospital there. John Scott and Greg Scrivener were murdered in the bedroom of their Suva home a year after Scott, head of the Fiji Red Cross, emerged as a humanitarian hero of the 2000 coup which saw members of parliament detained at gunpoint in appalling conditions for several weeks. Apete Kaisau was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be detained indefinitely because of insanity. Scott's brother, Owen, says it is hard to believe that releasing a violent double killer so soon was safe and sensible, he understood only the Fijian president could authorise the killer's release. The Scott and Scrivener families had asked the Fijian authorities to keep them informed about Kaisau but were not told of his release. Scott commented “It might not be helpful when dealing with Fijian officials if I was to comment on their helpfulness.” During the murder investigation the Fijian commissioner of police repeatedly released titillating and salacious comments to the media regarding the murdered pair's sexuality and lifestyle, but none of the lurid comments was found to have a basis in fact.